Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

gmlpn.co.uk

Home | Greater Manchester Learning Provider Network GMLPN

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

218 ms

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About Website

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The Greater Manchester Learning Provider Network (GMLPN) is one of the largest provider networks in the country, established in 2006.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gmlpn.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 3.8 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

gmlpn.co.uk performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.08

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gmlpn.co.uk

1454 ms

js

82 ms

style.css

345 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

263 ms

wp-mediaelement.css

264 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Gmlpn.co.uk, 24% (19 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Gmlpn.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (78%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

644.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Gmlpn.co.uk main page is 3.0 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. 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. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 68.3 kB

  • Original 86.5 kB
  • After minification 82.4 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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 68.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 38.5 kB

  • Original 193.6 kB
  • After minification 155.0 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. Obviously, GMLPN needs image optimization as it can save up to 38.5 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 336.8 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 1.0 MB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 134.8 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. Gmlpn.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (75%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GMLPN. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gmlpn.co.uk accessibility score

67

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

gmlpn.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

gmlpn.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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 Gmlpn.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 Gmlpn.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 data is detected on the main page of GMLPN. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: