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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

discoveringthearctic.org.uk

Discovering the Arctic - interactive education for schools

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

372 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

470 ms

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About Website

Welcome to discoveringthearctic.org.uk homepage info - get ready to check Discovering The Arctic best content right away, or after learning these important things about discoveringthearctic.org.uk

Discovering the Arctic, an award winning interactive educational teaching and learning resource for schools, developed by the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, in partnership with the British Antar...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Discoveringthearctic.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 372 ms and then it took 6.3 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

discoveringthearctic.org.uk performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

66/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.0 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

discoveringthearctic.org.uk

372 ms

style.min.css

88 ms

style.css

180 ms

flickity.min.css

254 ms

jquery.min.js

341 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Discoveringthearctic.org.uk, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Discoveringthearctic.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 50.5 kB (3%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Discoveringthearctic.org.uk main page is 1.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 42.1 kB

  • Original 50.2 kB
  • After minification 46.8 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 42.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Discovering The Arctic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 129.4 kB
  • After minification 129.4 kB
  • After compression 127.3 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 315 B

  • Original 74.5 kB
  • After minification 74.5 kB
  • After compression 74.2 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. Discoveringthearctic.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (55%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discovering The Arctic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

discoveringthearctic.org.uk

discoveringthearctic.org.uk

372 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

88 ms

style.css

style.css

180 ms

flickity.min.css

flickity.min.css

254 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

341 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

258 ms

skip-link-focus-fix.js

skip-link-focus-fix.js

257 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

404 ms

TweenMax.min.js

TweenMax.min.js

269 ms

ScrollToPlugin.min.js

ScrollToPlugin.min.js

336 ms

app.js

app.js

336 ms

main-nav.js

main-nav.js

403 ms

sidebars.js

sidebars.js

403 ms

flickity.pkgd.min.js

flickity.pkgd.min.js

452 ms

lazysizes.min.js

lazysizes.min.js

451 ms

js

js

57 ms

resources

resources

122 ms

search-bg.svg

search-bg.svg

100 ms

magnify-white.svg

magnify-white.svg

99 ms

iframe-back-arrow.svg

iframe-back-arrow.svg

98 ms

resources-tab.svg

resources-tab.svg

140 ms

dta-logo-white.svg

dta-logo-white.svg

145 ms

nav-menu-line.svg

nav-menu-line.svg

167 ms

rgs-logo-white.svg

rgs-logo-white.svg

167 ms

arctic-office-logo-white.svg

arctic-office-logo-white.svg

172 ms

bas-logo-white.svg

bas-logo-white.svg

306 ms

fco-logo-white.svg

fco-logo-white.svg

312 ms

sams-logo-white.svg

sams-logo-white.svg

250 ms

nav-openme-button-white.svg

nav-openme-button-white.svg

251 ms

home-splash.jpg

home-splash.jpg

510 ms

discovering-the-arct-text.svg

discovering-the-arct-text.svg

334 ms

scroll-down.svg

scroll-down.svg

335 ms

home-screen-2.jpg

home-screen-2.jpg

790 ms

bear-with-gradient.jpg

bear-with-gradient.jpg

639 ms

introducing_arctic_cluster-link_1.jpg

introducing_arctic_cluster-link_1.jpg

480 ms

faux-5x3.png

faux-5x3.png

416 ms

arctic-fox-467488526-small.jpg

arctic-fox-467488526-small.jpg

421 ms

arctic-science_cluster-link.jpg

arctic-science_cluster-link.jpg

585 ms

people_resources_cluster-link_1.jpg

people_resources_cluster-link_1.jpg

592 ms

challenges_ship_link_1_@2x.jpg

challenges_ship_link_1_@2x.jpg

570 ms

arctic_governance_cluster_link.jpg

arctic_governance_cluster_link.jpg

604 ms

go-bg-over.svg

go-bg-over.svg

653 ms

footer-bg.svg

footer-bg.svg

669 ms

facebook-logo.svg

facebook-logo.svg

675 ms

twitter-logo.svg

twitter-logo.svg

690 ms

to-top-arrow.png

to-top-arrow.png

686 ms

ClanWeb-News.woff

ClanWeb-News.woff

700 ms

Sanchez-Regular.woff

Sanchez-Regular.woff

719 ms

ClanWeb-Bold.woff

ClanWeb-Bold.woff

731 ms

Sanchez-Bold.woff

Sanchez-Bold.woff

746 ms

Sanchez-Semibold.woff

Sanchez-Semibold.woff

715 ms

subnav-openme-button.svg

subnav-openme-button.svg

707 ms

subnav-openme-button-small.svg

subnav-openme-button-small.svg

712 ms

1263 ms

style.css

style.css

85 ms

app.css

app.css

180 ms

splash-bg-simple.jpg

splash-bg-simple.jpg

167 ms

red.svg

red.svg

85 ms

rsrc-arrow-right.svg

rsrc-arrow-right.svg

87 ms

print.css

print.css

85 ms

Accessibility Review

discoveringthearctic.org.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

discoveringthearctic.org.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

discoveringthearctic.org.uk SEO score

98

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

discoveringthearctic.org.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Discovering The Arctic. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: