Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

ni-chic.org

Northern Ireland Connected Health Innovation Centre - Northern Ireland Connected Health Innovation Centre

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

399 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

506 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ni-chic.org page load time and found that the first response time was 399 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

ni-chic.org performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ni-chic.org

399 ms

whitelabel.css

219 ms

www.ni-chic.org

327 ms

js

61 ms

whitelabel.js

568 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Ni-chic.org, 86% (80 requests) were made to Ka-p.fontawesome.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Ulster.ac.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 36.0 kB (4%)

Content Size

936.9 kB

After Optimization

900.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Ni-chic.org main page is 936.9 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. 80% 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 550.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 33.3 kB

  • Original 38.5 kB
  • After minification 22.6 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 15.9 kB, which is 41% 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 33.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 60 B

  • Original 550.8 kB
  • After minification 550.7 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. Ni Chic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 874 B

  • Original 89.0 kB
  • After minification 89.0 kB
  • After compression 88.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 258.5 kB
  • After minification 258.5 kB
  • After compression 256.8 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. Ni-chic.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (31%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ni Chic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ni-chic.org accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

ni-chic.org 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

SEO Factors

ni-chic.org SEO score

99

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 Ni-chic.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 Ni-chic.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 Ni Chic. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: