Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

instituteforapprenticeships.org

Home / Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

362 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

624 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Instituteforapprenticeships.org page load time and found that the first response time was 362 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

instituteforapprenticeships.org performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.136

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.instituteforapprenticeships.org

362 ms

js

75 ms

gtm.js

126 ms

style.636adb01.css

225 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Instituteforapprenticeships.org, 14% (8 requests) were made to Static.cognitoforms.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (872 ms) belongs to the original domain Instituteforapprenticeships.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 381.4 kB (10%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Instituteforapprenticeships.org main page is 3.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 100.6 kB

  • Original 122.0 kB
  • After minification 113.6 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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. 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 100.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 162.3 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Institute For Apprenticeships images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 90.2 kB

  • Original 623.0 kB
  • After minification 622.8 kB
  • After compression 532.8 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 90.2 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 28.3 kB

  • Original 88.7 kB
  • After minification 88.7 kB
  • After compression 60.4 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. Instituteforapprenticeships.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.3 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (43%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Institute For Apprenticeships. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

instituteforapprenticeships.org accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

instituteforapprenticeships.org 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

instituteforapprenticeships.org SEO score

98

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Institute For Apprenticeships. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: