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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

guidedogs.org.uk

Guide Dogs | The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

426 ms

guidedogs.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit guidedogs.org.uk now to see the best up-to-date Guide Dogs content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about guidedogs.org.uk

Guide Dogs supports blind and partially sighted people to live the life they choose. Learn about our services and campaign work and how you can support us.

Visit guidedogs.org.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Guidedogs.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

guidedogs.org.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.5 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,840 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

guidedogs.org.uk

172 ms

guidedogs.org.uk

262 ms

www.guidedogs.org.uk

150 ms

gtm.js

247 ms

2913.js

192 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Guidedogs.org.uk, 31% (17 requests) were made to Gd-prod.azureedge.net and 9% (5 requests) were made to Youtube-nocookie.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Gd-prod.azureedge.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (49%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Guidedogs.org.uk main page is 2.5 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. HTML takes 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 185.2 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 1.2 MB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 892.1 kB
  • After minification 884.7 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. Guide Dogs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 191.7 kB
  • After minification 191.5 kB
  • After compression 159.5 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 32.2 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 58.6 kB
  • After minification 58.6 kB
  • After compression 58.6 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. Guidedogs.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (35%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guide Dogs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

guidedogs.org.uk

guidedogs.org.uk

172 ms

guidedogs.org.uk

guidedogs.org.uk

262 ms

www.guidedogs.org.uk

www.guidedogs.org.uk

150 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

247 ms

2913.js

2913.js

192 ms

1003685b69c57a68.css

1003685b69c57a68.css

122 ms

polyfills-c67a75d1b6f99dc8.js

polyfills-c67a75d1b6f99dc8.js

166 ms

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webpack-92f2b0f2f5be6564.js

167 ms

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framework-d8a790519870eda2.js

186 ms

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main-4207e46a315ab689.js

186 ms

_app-0da4eec6c53267a7.js

_app-0da4eec6c53267a7.js

191 ms

ea88be26-2864544891b28e68.js

ea88be26-2864544891b28e68.js

191 ms

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928-6baa05db256cd168.js

233 ms

233-ee2517152ef8a375.js

233-ee2517152ef8a375.js

190 ms

%5B%5B...slug%5D%5D-bf00c04daa5a90d6.js

%5B%5B...slug%5D%5D-bf00c04daa5a90d6.js

243 ms

_buildManifest.js

_buildManifest.js

233 ms

_ssgManifest.js

_ssgManifest.js

244 ms

potw-pod-image.jpg

potw-pod-image.jpg

718 ms

kate-and-margot-playing.jpg

kate-and-margot-playing.jpg

614 ms

campaigning-with-us-pod-resized.jpg

campaigning-with-us-pod-resized.jpg

826 ms

volunteer-fundraisers-smile-with-collection-boxes-and-guide-dogs.jpg

volunteer-fundraisers-smile-with-collection-boxes-and-guide-dogs.jpg

737 ms

legacy-gift-in-wills-ttl-784-x-441.jpg

legacy-gift-in-wills-ttl-784-x-441.jpg

633 ms

guide-dogs-run-2024-pod.jpg

guide-dogs-run-2024-pod.jpg

639 ms

margot-playing-with-toys.jpg

margot-playing-with-toys.jpg

1551 ms

footer-gift-aid.png

footer-gift-aid.png

632 ms

footer-thawte.png

footer-thawte.png

637 ms

footer-fundraising-regulator.png

footer-fundraising-regulator.png

943 ms

business-disability-forum-logo.png

business-disability-forum-logo.png

934 ms

browser-logo-chrome.jpg

browser-logo-chrome.jpg

933 ms

browser-logo-firefox.jpg

browser-logo-firefox.jpg

1062 ms

browser-logo-ie.jpg

browser-logo-ie.jpg

1084 ms

browser-logo-edge.jpg

browser-logo-edge.jpg

1262 ms

browser-logo-safari.jpg

browser-logo-safari.jpg

1261 ms

guide-dog-sponsor-puppy-crumble-2000-x-560.jpg

guide-dog-sponsor-puppy-crumble-2000-x-560.jpg

1376 ms

icon-external-white.svg

icon-external-white.svg

187 ms

icon-search--black.svg

icon-search--black.svg

123 ms

icon-arrow-blue.svg

icon-arrow-blue.svg

122 ms

accordion-plus--blue-tint.svg

accordion-plus--blue-tint.svg

125 ms

icon-arrow-blue-tint.svg

icon-arrow-blue-tint.svg

187 ms

icon-email-blue-tint.svg

icon-email-blue-tint.svg

124 ms

arrow-right--blue.svg

arrow-right--blue.svg

245 ms

castledown-regular.woff

castledown-regular.woff

222 ms

UoWksfE3ZqQ

UoWksfE3ZqQ

103 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

20 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

38 ms

base.js

base.js

72 ms

castledown-bold.woff

castledown-bold.woff

299 ms

castledown-heavy.woff

castledown-heavy.woff

299 ms

LvMrC3vzHFP8SzxjvqNWRksbkOPiJTf11ILX4Pq8Ybc.js

LvMrC3vzHFP8SzxjvqNWRksbkOPiJTf11ILX4Pq8Ybc.js

69 ms

embed.js

embed.js

32 ms

Create

Create

128 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

96 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

99 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

16 ms

Accessibility Review

guidedogs.org.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

guidedogs.org.uk best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

guidedogs.org.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Guidedogs.org.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 Guidedogs.org.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

guidedogs.org.uk

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