Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

boswells-school.com

Welcome to The Boswells School | An 11-18 secondary school and college in Chelmsford.

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

177 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

248 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Boswells School content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about boswells-school.com

The Boswells School is an extremely popular, academically successful, over-subscribed 11-18 school in Chelmsford, Essex that has an excellent reputation. To contact the school call 01245 264451 or ema...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boswells-school.com page load time and found that the first response time was 177 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

boswells-school.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.577

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

boswells-school.com

177 ms

www.boswells-school.com

829 ms

home.min.css

210 ms

breadcrumbs.min.css

211 ms

intro_text_c.min.css

210 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Boswells-school.com, 25% (17 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 18% (12 requests) were made to Boswellschool.s3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (844 ms) relates to the external source Boswellschool.s3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 531.5 kB (11%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Boswells-school.com main page is 4.7 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 527.6 kB

  • Original 693.5 kB
  • After minification 660.5 kB
  • After compression 165.9 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 527.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 4.0 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Boswells School images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 243 B

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 7.8 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 593 B

  • Original 29.9 kB
  • After minification 29.9 kB
  • After compression 29.3 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Boswells-school.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (47%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boswells School. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

boswells-school.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

Best Practices

boswells-school.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

boswells-school.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Boswells-school.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Boswells-school.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Boswells School. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: