Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

ie-today.co.uk

Independent Education Today - For leaders of independent schools

Page Load Speed

12.6 sec in total

First Response

824 ms

Resources Loaded

10.8 sec

Page Rendered

984 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ie-today.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 824 ms and then it took 11.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ie-today.co.uk performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,230 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.486

17/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ie-today.co.uk

824 ms

css

65 ms

B.css

173 ms

C.css

172 ms

S.css

558 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Ie-today.co.uk, 60% (79 requests) were made to Wildfirecomms-images.co.uk and 5% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6 sec) relates to the external source Wildfirecomms-images.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (8%)

Content Size

13.0 MB

After Optimization

11.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Ie-today.co.uk main page is 13.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 12.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 47.4 kB

  • Original 59.4 kB
  • After minification 55.3 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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 47.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 820.6 kB

  • Original 12.6 MB
  • After minification 11.8 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. Ie Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 148.5 kB

  • Original 241.9 kB
  • After minification 219.0 kB
  • After compression 93.5 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 148.5 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 75.6 kB

  • Original 84.6 kB
  • After minification 70.3 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. Ie-today.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 75.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (13%)

Requests Now

127

After Optimization

111

The browser has sent 127 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ie Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ie-today.co.uk accessibility score

79

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

ie-today.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ie-today.co.uk SEO score

85

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ie-today.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Ie-today.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 Ie Today. 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: