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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

cot.co.uk

Royal College of Occupational Therapists - Home

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

177 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

286 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Cot content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about cot.co.uk

We’re RCOT, the Royal College of Occupational Therapists. We champion occupational therapy. We’re here to help achieve life-changing breakthroughs – for our members, for the people they support and fo...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cot.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 177 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cot.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value830 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.52

15/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cot.co.uk

177 ms

cot.co.uk

1089 ms

css_7340844b489f9d7aa8db8039922c90f5.css

871 ms

jquery.min.js

555 ms

drupal.js

241 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Cot.co.uk, 10% (11 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Ws.sharethis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Cot.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (52%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cot.co.uk main page is 2.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 46.4 kB

  • Original 57.9 kB
  • After minification 54.8 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 46.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 498.2 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Obviously, Cot needs image optimization as it can save up to 498.2 kB or 31% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 798.3 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 893.6 kB
  • After compression 237.6 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 798.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 172.8 kB

  • Original 214.5 kB
  • After minification 208.4 kB
  • After compression 41.7 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. Cot.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 172.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (54%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

48

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cot. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cot.co.uk

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177 ms

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1089 ms

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871 ms

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555 ms

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241 ms

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239 ms

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515 ms

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371 ms

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373 ms

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537 ms

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373 ms

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542 ms

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Accessibility Review

cot.co.uk accessibility score

88

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cot.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

cot.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cot.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 Cot.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

cot.co.uk

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