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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

ham.co.uk

HAM Associates - Human Factors, ergonomics design & usability consultancy

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

311 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

93 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ham.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 311 ms and then it took 2.8 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

ham.co.uk performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ham.co.uk

311 ms

www.ham.co.uk

418 ms

prototype.js

9 ms

scriptaculous.js

19 ms

effects.js

4 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Ham.co.uk, 7% (3 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Ham.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 207.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Ham.co.uk main page is 2.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 21.1 kB
  • After minification 21.1 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 15.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 182.8 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. HAM images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 68.6 kB
  • After minification 68.3 kB
  • After compression 60.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 8.4 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (10%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HAM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ham.co.uk

ham.co.uk

311 ms

www.ham.co.uk

www.ham.co.uk

418 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

9 ms

scriptaculous.js

scriptaculous.js

19 ms

effects.js

effects.js

4 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

9 ms

index3c.gif

index3c.gif

245 ms

_clear.gif

_clear.gif

170 ms

ems3i.jpeg

ems3i.jpeg

627 ms

avonandsomersetl3.jpeg

avonandsomersetl3.jpeg

173 ms

userspublicdocum3.jpeg

userspublicdocum3.jpeg

176 ms

firebrigadesunio3.jpeg

firebrigadesunio3.jpeg

175 ms

train3.jpeg

train3.jpeg

407 ms

petroplant3.jpeg

petroplant3.jpeg

418 ms

westmidlandspoli3.jpeg

westmidlandspoli3.jpeg

339 ms

severntrent2c.jpeg

severntrent2c.jpeg

340 ms

interfleettechno3.jpeg

interfleettechno3.jpeg

406 ms

ykh8gx3c3.jpeg

ykh8gx3c3.jpeg

494 ms

anglianled200c.gif

anglianled200c.gif

574 ms

associatedbritis3.jpeg

associatedbritis3.jpeg

559 ms

hampshirefire0c.jpeg

hampshirefire0c.jpeg

568 ms

glospolicelogo3.jpeg

glospolicelogo3.jpeg

582 ms

nhsdirect3.jpeg

nhsdirect3.jpeg

654 ms

index9b.gif

index9b.gif

723 ms

hamlogo2011large4.gif

hamlogo2011large4.gif

729 ms

item5b.gif

item5b.gif

726 ms

crest3.jpeg

crest3.jpeg

746 ms

northernirelendf3.jpeg

northernirelendf3.jpeg

790 ms

hpalogoonlyv5c.jpeg

hpalogoonlyv5c.jpeg

814 ms

dyfedpowys3.jpeg

dyfedpowys3.jpeg

877 ms

bedfordshirebadge3.gif

bedfordshirebadge3.gif

959 ms

devonsomersetfire3.gif

devonsomersetfire3.gif

972 ms

index2d.jpeg

index2d.jpeg

1137 ms

img6975i.jpeg

img6975i.jpeg

1697 ms

plan17.jpeg

plan17.jpeg

1773 ms

img0610d.jpeg

img0610d.jpeg

1197 ms

img6912bw4.jpeg

img6912bw4.jpeg

1681 ms

sta0050a4.jpeg

sta0050a4.jpeg

1301 ms

m14i.gif

m14i.gif

1296 ms

collect

collect

25 ms

js

js

57 ms

m14h.gif

m14h.gif

163 ms

Accessibility Review

ham.co.uk accessibility score

70

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

ham.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ham.co.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 Ham.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 Ham.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

ham.co.uk

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