Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

ilinksmersey.nhs.uk

iLinks Innovations Conference and Exhibition - Leading innovations in healthcare technology

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

181 ms

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About Website

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iLINKS Innovations is an annual NHS conference and exhibition, aiming to showcase innovation and technology in healthcare and the potential benefits to the Merseyside local health economy.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ilinksmersey.nhs.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 2.5 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

ilinksmersey.nhs.uk performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.125

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.1 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ilinksmersey.nhs.uk

182 ms

ilinksmersey.nhs.uk

389 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

951 ms

bootstrap.min.css

551 ms

font-awesome.css

462 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Ilinksmersey.nhs.uk, 31% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (951 ms) belongs to the original domain Ilinksmersey.nhs.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (85%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

197.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Ilinksmersey.nhs.uk main page is 1.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 968.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 18.5 kB
  • After minification 14.3 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 4.2 kB, which is 23% 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 13.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 870.0 kB

  • Original 968.8 kB
  • After minification 98.8 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, ILinks Mersey needs image optimization as it can save up to 870.0 kB or 90% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 141.6 kB

  • Original 208.5 kB
  • After minification 193.8 kB
  • After compression 66.9 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 141.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 128.0 kB

  • Original 154.0 kB
  • After minification 148.6 kB
  • After compression 26.0 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. Ilinksmersey.nhs.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 128.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (68%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ILinks Mersey. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ilinksmersey.nhs.uk accessibility score

78

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

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

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

Best Practices

ilinksmersey.nhs.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ilinksmersey.nhs.uk SEO score

90

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

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

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 Ilinksmersey.nhs.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 Ilinksmersey.nhs.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 ILinks Mersey. 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: