Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

ess-sims.co.uk

ESS SIMS | Thousands of schools trust SIMS every day

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

583 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

627 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ess-sims.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 583 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ess-sims.co.uk performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,450 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ess-sims.co.uk

583 ms

w-not-As-her-Make-my-thos-stickes-taket-is-repe-

56 ms

google_tag.script.js

179 ms

ajax-progress.module.css

35 ms

align.module.css

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (104 requests) were addressed to the original Ess-sims.co.uk, 2% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Ess-sims.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.0 kB (14%)

Content Size

505.7 kB

After Optimization

434.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Ess-sims.co.uk main page is 505.7 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 226.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 46.5 kB

  • Original 57.4 kB
  • After minification 49.4 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 8.0 kB, which is 14% 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 46.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 115.9 kB
  • After minification 109.5 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. ESS SIMS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 667 B

  • Original 226.8 kB
  • After minification 226.8 kB
  • After compression 226.2 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 105.5 kB
  • After minification 104.4 kB
  • After compression 88.2 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. Ess-sims.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.3 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 90 (79%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ESS SIMS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 42 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ess-sims.co.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

ess-sims.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ess-sims.co.uk SEO score

93

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ess-sims.co.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 Ess-sims.co.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

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