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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

firstutors.co.uk

First Tutors - Private Tutors for Home Tuition & Personal Tutoring

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

141 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

186 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstutors.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 141 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstutors.co.uk performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstutors.co.uk

141 ms

693 ms

js

69 ms

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121 ms

logo-uk.png

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Firstutors.co.uk, 48% (16 requests) were made to Assets.firsttutors.ws and 24% (8 requests) were made to Firsttutors.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (693 ms) relates to the external source Firsttutors.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 173.2 kB (36%)

Content Size

486.1 kB

After Optimization

312.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Firstutors.co.uk main page is 486.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 211.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 172.8 kB

  • Original 211.0 kB
  • After minification 211.0 kB
  • After compression 38.2 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 172.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 154.1 kB
  • After minification 154.1 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. Firs Tutors images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 85.3 kB
  • After minification 85.3 kB
  • After compression 85.3 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 400 B

  • Original 35.7 kB
  • After minification 35.7 kB
  • After compression 35.3 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. Firstutors.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (26%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Firs Tutors. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

firstutors.co.uk

firstutors.co.uk

141 ms

693 ms

js

js

69 ms

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121 ms

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88 ms

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177 ms

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154 ms

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18 ms

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382 ms

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114 ms

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419 ms

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422 ms

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136 ms

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136 ms

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158 ms

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142 ms

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17 ms

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18 ms

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17 ms

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18 ms

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18 ms

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19 ms

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6 ms

Accessibility Review

firstutors.co.uk accessibility score

88

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

[role] values are not valid

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

firstutors.co.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

firstutors.co.uk SEO score

96

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 Firstutors.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 Firstutors.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

firstutors.co.uk

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