Access independentage.org. Independent Age | Supporting people facing financial hardship in later life

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value880 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.688

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

14/100

10%

www.independentage.org

75 ms

gtm.js

99 ms

uc.js

43 ms

adg5qze.js

578 ms

ajax-progress.module.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Independentage.org, 7% (7 requests) were made to 387741ca2f8b4806a9f6-syntelatexa-production-webchat-app.azurewebsites.net and 6% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (578 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Independentage.org main page is 1.7 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. 75% 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. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 65.3 kB

Original 80.2 kB
After minification 74.2 kB
After compression 14.8 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 65.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

Original 1.2 MB
After minification 1.1 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. Independent Age images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 53.6 kB

Original 232.4 kB
After minification 232.4 kB
After compression 178.9 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 53.6 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 139.1 kB

Original 204.1 kB
After minification 201.1 kB
After compression 65.0 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. Independentage.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 139.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Independent Age. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 41 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

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

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

Search Engine Optimization Advices

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

Links are not crawlable

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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/).

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 Independentage.org 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 Independentage.org 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

independentage.org

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

Independent Age | Supporting people facing financial hardship in later life

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

www.independentage.org

gtm.js

uc.js

adg5qze.js

ajax-progress.module.css

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

www.independentage.org

gtm.js

uc.js

adg5qze.js

ajax-progress.module.css

align.module.css

autocomplete-loading.module.css

fieldgroup.module.css

container-inline.module.css

clearfix.module.css

details.module.css

hidden.module.css

item-list.module.css

js.module.css

nowrap.module.css

position-container.module.css

progress.module.css

reset-appearance.module.css

resize.module.css

sticky-header.module.css

system-status-counter.css

system-status-report-counters.css

system-status-report-general-info.css

tabledrag.module.css

tablesort.module.css

tree-child.module.css

paragraphs.unpublished.css

flipcards.css

awpgrid.css

adaptiveparapgraphs.css

backgroundcolours.css

generic_padding.css

flexslider.css

bannerslider.css

pagefluid.css

hacks.css

global.css

grid.css

tweaks.css

InisoftWebChat

slick.css

slick-theme.css

slickoverrides.css