Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

britschools.co.uk

Primary, Secondary Schools, Colleges, Further Education & Universities in the UK

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

193 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

131 ms

britschools.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Comprehensive list of all types of schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, including primary schools, secondary schools and further education.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Britschools.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 193 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

britschools.co.uk performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.95

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

britschools.co.uk

193 ms

www.britschools.co.uk

390 ms

style.css

168 ms

jquery.js

360 ms

buttons.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Britschools.co.uk, 10% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (432 ms) relates to the external source Zoomlocal.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.6 kB (23%)

Content Size

316.2 kB

After Optimization

243.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Britschools.co.uk main page is 316.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 149.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 16.1 kB
  • After minification 15.2 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 11.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 34.7 kB

  • Original 128.7 kB
  • After minification 94.0 kB

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. Obviously, Brit Schools needs image optimization as it can save up to 34.7 kB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 18.9 kB

  • Original 149.5 kB
  • After minification 149.5 kB
  • After compression 130.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 18.9 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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. Britschools.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.8 kB or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (68%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brit Schools. 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 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

britschools.co.uk accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

britschools.co.uk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

britschools.co.uk SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Britschools.co.uk 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 Britschools.co.uk 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 description is not detected on the main page of Brit Schools. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: