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Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

criticalillness.org.uk

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Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

323 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Criticalillness.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 1.5 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

criticalillness.org.uk performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

81/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

criticalillness.org.uk

170 ms

www.criticalillness.org.uk

568 ms

style.css

79 ms

jquery.min.js

20 ms

jquery.sticky.js

153 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Criticalillness.org.uk, 12% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (568 ms) belongs to the original domain Criticalillness.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 38.7 kB (30%)

Content Size

128.7 kB

After Optimization

90.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Criticalillness.org.uk main page is 128.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 52.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 35.5 kB

  • Original 45.6 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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 35.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 26.5 kB
  • After minification 24.7 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. Critical Illness images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 534 B

  • Original 52.5 kB
  • After minification 52.5 kB
  • After compression 51.9 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

-23%

Potential reduce by 954 B

  • Original 4.2 kB
  • After minification 4.2 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. Criticalillness.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 954 B or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (53%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Critical Illness. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

criticalillness.org.uk

criticalillness.org.uk

170 ms

www.criticalillness.org.uk

www.criticalillness.org.uk

568 ms

style.css

style.css

79 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

20 ms

jquery.sticky.js

jquery.sticky.js

153 ms

wide-header-bg.jpg

wide-header-bg.jpg

127 ms

logo.png

logo.png

126 ms

slogan.png

slogan.png

220 ms

checked.png

checked.png

229 ms

splash-bg.png

splash-bg.png

239 ms

white-pattern.jpg

white-pattern.jpg

243 ms

safe.png

safe.png

240 ms

submit-button.png

submit-button.png

243 ms

bullet-side.png

bullet-side.png

295 ms

bullet.gif

bullet.gif

306 ms

ga.js

ga.js

19 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

Accessibility Review

criticalillness.org.uk accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

criticalillness.org.uk best practices score

75

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

criticalillness.org.uk SEO score

97

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Criticalillness.org.uk 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 Criticalillness.org.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

criticalillness.org.uk

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