Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

nationallocums.co.uk

Trusted Locum Agency - National Locums

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

276 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

69 ms

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About Website

Visit nationallocums.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date National Locums content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about nationallocums.co.uk

National Locums is a trusted locum agency supplying locum doctors, Nurses and AHPs to the NHS and private hospitals UK-wide.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nationallocums.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 276 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nationallocums.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,370 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nationallocums.co.uk

276 ms

www.nationallocums.co.uk

277 ms

www.nationallocums.co.uk

367 ms

4a8c30b7f0.js

164 ms

ykr7sga.css

159 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Nationallocums.co.uk, 11% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (367 ms) belongs to the original domain Nationallocums.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 217.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Nationallocums.co.uk main page is 2.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 126.6 kB

  • Original 147.3 kB
  • After minification 121.0 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 26.3 kB, which is 18% 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 126.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. National Locums images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 1.3 MB

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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 89.8 kB

  • Original 165.3 kB
  • After minification 165.3 kB
  • After compression 75.4 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. Nationallocums.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 89.8 kB or 54% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (58%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National Locums. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nationallocums.co.uk accessibility score

88

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

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

nationallocums.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nationallocums.co.uk SEO score

93

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Nationallocums.co.uk 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 Nationallocums.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 data is detected on the main page of National Locums. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: