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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

dods-training.com

Civil Service policy profession skills and training | Dods Training

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

185 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

531 ms

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About Website

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Dods Training, under the umbrella of Dods Group plc, was set up more than 20 years ago to inform clients how Government and Parliament work. Today Dods Training is the UK's leading organisation of...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dods-training.com page load time and found that the first response time was 185 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dods-training.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dods-training.com

185 ms

www.dods-training.com

158 ms

home.htm

220 ms

core.css

155 ms

layout.css

236 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Dods-training.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Static.hotjar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (574 ms) belongs to the original domain Dods-training.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 84.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

924.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dods-training.com main page is 1.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 840.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 51.2 kB
  • After minification 46.5 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 35.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 840.6 kB
  • After minification 819.9 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. Dods Training images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 26.2 kB

  • Original 95.7 kB
  • After minification 88.4 kB
  • After compression 69.5 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 26.2 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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. Dods-training.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.3 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (30%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dods Training. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dods-training.com

dods-training.com

185 ms

www.dods-training.com

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158 ms

home.htm

home.htm

220 ms

core.css

core.css

155 ms

layout.css

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236 ms

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71 ms

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22 ms

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312 ms

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316 ms

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334 ms

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Accessibility Review

dods-training.com accessibility score

59

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

dods-training.com 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

dods-training.com SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Dods-training.com 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 Dods-training.com 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

dods-training.com

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