Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

espo.org

ESPO - School Supplies & Procurement Services for the Public Sector

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

223 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

espo.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing ESPO content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about espo.org

With over 40 years experience, ESPO is a trusted school supplier to over 12,000 schools, offering over 27,000 products. As an experienced education supplier, we provide an great service with excellent...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Espo.org page load time and found that the first response time was 223 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

espo.org performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,680 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.155

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.espo.org

223 ms

Reopen_Jan_2024_Homepage_Banner_1232x35__3.jpg

130 ms

Christmas_Period_Delivery_Information_Homepage_Banner_1232x35__1.jpg

133 ms

ESPO_Homepage_Banner_-_Switch_Save.jpg

447 ms

ESPO_Switch_Assets_Homepage_Sub-hero_296_x_238.jpg

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 191 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (185 requests) were addressed to the original Espo.org, 2% (3 requests) were made to Js.klevu.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Connect.punchout2go.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (535 ms) relates to the external source Api.feefo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 955.4 kB (30%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Espo.org main page is 3.2 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 898.3 kB

  • Original 993.7 kB
  • After minification 773.9 kB
  • After compression 95.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 219.8 kB, which is 22% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 898.3 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. ESPO images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 41.7 kB

  • Original 451.7 kB
  • After minification 451.2 kB
  • After compression 409.9 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 176.6 kB
  • After minification 175.8 kB
  • After compression 173.7 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. Espo.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 136 (73%)

Requests Now

186

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 186 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ESPO. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 132 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

espo.org accessibility score

96

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

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

espo.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

espo.org SEO score

90

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 doesn't use 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 Espo.org 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 Espo.org 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

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