Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

diabetes-support.org.uk

Diabetes Support in the UK: A Comprehensive Guide - Diabetes Support

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

285 ms

Resources Loaded

562 ms

Page Rendered

501 ms

diabetes-support.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Diabetes Support content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about diabetes-support.org.uk

A forum where UK diabetics can exchange information and support about all aspects of diabetes and its treatment

Visit diabetes-support.org.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Diabetes-support.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 285 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

diabetes-support.org.uk performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

74/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.22

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.0 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

diabetes-support.org.uk

285 ms

Picture-6.jpg

92 ms

Picture-11.png

170 ms

Picture-7.jpg

276 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Diabetes-support.org.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (285 ms) belongs to the original domain Diabetes-support.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.3 kB (16%)

Content Size

40.4 kB

After Optimization

34.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Diabetes-support.org.uk main page is 40.4 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 37.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 3.0 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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 1.6 kB or 54% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 37.4 kB
  • After minification 32.7 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. Obviously, Diabetes Support needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.6 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Diabetes Support. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

diabetes-support.org.uk accessibility score

53

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

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

diabetes-support.org.uk 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

SEO Factors

diabetes-support.org.uk SEO score

92

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Diabetes-support.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 Diabetes-support.org.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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