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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

carers.org

Carers Trust | Transforming the lives of carers

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

274 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

738 ms

carers.org screenshot

About Website

Visit carers.org now to see the best up-to-date Carers content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about carers.org

Carers Trust partners with its network of local carer organisations to provide funding and support, deliver programmes, raise awareness and influence policy for unpaid carers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carers.org page load time and found that the first response time was 274 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

carers.org performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

57/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,070 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.06

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

carers.org

274 ms

carers.org

474 ms

layout.css

171 ms

slick.css

33 ms

jquery.min.js

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Carers.org, 10% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (755 ms) belongs to the original domain Carers.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 129.1 kB (15%)

Content Size

876.4 kB

After Optimization

747.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Carers.org main page is 876.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 648.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 95.6 kB

  • Original 123.8 kB
  • After minification 119.7 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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 95.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

  • Original 648.3 kB
  • After minification 615.0 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. Carers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 76.4 kB
  • After minification 76.4 kB
  • After compression 76.4 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 303 B

  • Original 27.9 kB
  • After minification 27.9 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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. Carers.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (17%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

carers.org

carers.org

274 ms

carers.org

carers.org

474 ms

layout.css

layout.css

171 ms

slick.css

slick.css

33 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

25 ms

cookiecontrol.css

cookiecontrol.css

252 ms

js

js

93 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

11 ms

app.js

app.js

414 ms

css

css

36 ms

carers-trust-logo-white.svg

carers-trust-logo-white.svg

130 ms

bullet-light-blue.svg

bullet-light-blue.svg

127 ms

circle-mask-overlay-curly-arrow.svg

circle-mask-overlay-curly-arrow.svg

229 ms

circle-mask-overlay-lines-2.svg

circle-mask-overlay-lines-2.svg

230 ms

kirsty_cropped_690_690.jpg

kirsty_cropped_690_690.jpg

248 ms

help-strip-bubble-tail-light-blue.svg

help-strip-bubble-tail-light-blue.svg

314 ms

help-strip-bubble-tail-blue-tint.svg

help-strip-bubble-tail-blue-tint.svg

316 ms

map-marker-green.svg

map-marker-green.svg

406 ms

take-our-survey-highlighting-challenges-facing-unpaid-carers-in-the-workplace-web.jpg

take-our-survey-highlighting-challenges-facing-unpaid-carers-in-the-workplace-web.jpg

394 ms

curly-arrow-deep-blue.svg

curly-arrow-deep-blue.svg

316 ms

whatsapp-image-2024-05-03-at-13.47.01-1_cropped_450_300.jpg

whatsapp-image-2024-05-03-at-13.47.01-1_cropped_450_300.jpg

331 ms

carer-poverty-uk.jpg

carer-poverty-uk.jpg

478 ms

young-carers-covenant_cropped.png

young-carers-covenant_cropped.png

731 ms

text-underline-1-light-blue.svg

text-underline-1-light-blue.svg

398 ms

hands-white-on-green.svg

hands-white-on-green.svg

515 ms

uk-map-white-on-light-blue.svg

uk-map-white-on-light-blue.svg

590 ms

grants-white-on-pink.svg

grants-white-on-pink.svg

611 ms

circle-mask-overlay-curved-arrow.svg

circle-mask-overlay-curved-arrow.svg

483 ms

circle-mask-overlay-heart.svg

circle-mask-overlay-heart.svg

560 ms

father-and-daughter-embracing.jpg

father-and-daughter-embracing.jpg

733 ms

carers-trust-logo-colour.svg

carers-trust-logo-colour.svg

620 ms

fr-logo-white.svg

fr-logo-white.svg

643 ms

istock-875673894-hero_cropped.jpg

istock-875673894-hero_cropped.jpg

672 ms

carersmartcropped-600x338_cropped.png

carersmartcropped-600x338_cropped.png

678 ms

networks.png

networks.png

686 ms

young-carers-action-day-campaign.png

young-carers-action-day-campaign.png

725 ms

read-our-impact-stories.png

read-our-impact-stories.png

755 ms

landing

landing

93 ms

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65 ms

Accessibility Review

carers.org accessibility score

82

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

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

carers.org 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

carers.org SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Carers.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Carers.org 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

carers.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Carers. 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: