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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

ifl.ac.uk

Home | The Society for Education and Training (SET)

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

253 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ifl.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 3.3 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

ifl.ac.uk performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

set.et-foundation.co.uk

1478 ms

dev.css

332 ms

styles.css

629 ms

vendor.js

745 ms

jquery.blockUI.js

593 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Ifl.ac.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Set.et-foundation.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 479.1 kB (66%)

Content Size

721.6 kB

After Optimization

242.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ifl.ac.uk main page is 721.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 460.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 61.5 kB

  • Original 74.7 kB
  • After minification 56.5 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.2 kB, which is 24% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 61.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 34.4 kB

  • Original 114.0 kB
  • After minification 79.6 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, Ifl needs image optimization as it can save up to 34.4 kB or 30% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 324.6 kB

  • Original 460.9 kB
  • After minification 425.5 kB
  • After compression 136.3 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 324.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 58.6 kB

  • Original 72.0 kB
  • After minification 70.9 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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. Ifl.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 58.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (36%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ifl. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

set.et-foundation.co.uk

set.et-foundation.co.uk

1478 ms

dev.css

dev.css

332 ms

styles.css

styles.css

629 ms

vendor.js

vendor.js

745 ms

jquery.blockUI.js

jquery.blockUI.js

593 ms

jquery.easyPaginate.js

jquery.easyPaginate.js

437 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

233 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

375 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

314 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

392 ms

production.min.js

production.min.js

509 ms

css

css

49 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

179 ms

ImageGen.ashx

ImageGen.ashx

316 ms

ImageGen.ashx

ImageGen.ashx

705 ms

ImageGen.ashx

ImageGen.ashx

865 ms

ImageGen.ashx

ImageGen.ashx

716 ms

ETF_logo.png

ETF_logo.png

186 ms

social-twitter.jpg

social-twitter.jpg

255 ms

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cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3aCWcynf_cDxXwCLxiixG1c.ttf

56 ms

k3k702ZOKiLJc3WVjuplzInF5uFdDttMLvmWuJdhhgs.ttf

k3k702ZOKiLJc3WVjuplzInF5uFdDttMLvmWuJdhhgs.ttf

56 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

418 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

63 ms

ImageGen.ashx

ImageGen.ashx

231 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

Accessibility Review

ifl.ac.uk accessibility score

86

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

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

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

ifl.ac.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

SEO Factors

ifl.ac.uk SEO score

97

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ifl.ac.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 Ifl.ac.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

ifl.ac.uk

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