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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

nmc.org.uk

The Nursing & Midwifery Council - The Nursing and Midwifery Council

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

261 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

348 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Nmc content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about nmc.org.uk

We’re the independent regulator for nurses, midwives and nursing associates. We hold a register of nurses and midwives who can practice in the UK, and nursing associates who can practice in England

Visit nmc.org.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Nmc.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 261 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nmc.org.uk performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,010 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nmc.org.uk

261 ms

www.nmc.org.uk

757 ms

fonts.net.css

153 ms

site.css

468 ms

head.js

315 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Nmc.org.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Dl.episerver.net and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (757 ms) belongs to the original domain Nmc.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 111.8 kB (21%)

Content Size

525.3 kB

After Optimization

413.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nmc.org.uk main page is 525.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 380.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 39.5 kB

  • Original 46.3 kB
  • After minification 31.5 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 14.9 kB, which is 32% 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 39.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 380.2 kB
  • After minification 362.1 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. Nmc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 54.1 kB

  • Original 98.7 kB
  • After minification 97.8 kB
  • After compression 44.6 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 54.1 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 102 B
  • After minification 102 B
  • After compression 102 B

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. Nmc.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (41%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nmc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nmc.org.uk

nmc.org.uk

261 ms

www.nmc.org.uk

www.nmc.org.uk

757 ms

fonts.net.css

fonts.net.css

153 ms

site.css

site.css

468 ms

head.js

head.js

315 ms

foot.js

foot.js

633 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

249 ms

dotcentric-nav.min.js

dotcentric-nav.min.js

242 ms

ba.js

ba.js

359 ms

native.history.js

native.history.js

233 ms

find.js

find.js

249 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

89 ms

prum.min.js

prum.min.js

79 ms

nmc-logo.svg

nmc-logo.svg

90 ms

nmc-logo.png

nmc-logo.png

134 ms

sprite.svg

sprite.svg

92 ms

user.png

user.png

133 ms

header-register.png

header-register.png

102 ms

header-employer.png

header-employer.png

259 ms

homepage.jpg

homepage.jpg

326 ms

nmc-logo.jpg

nmc-logo.jpg

260 ms

revalidation-microsite-news-thumbnail.jpg

revalidation-microsite-news-thumbnail.jpg

260 ms

national-maternity-review.jpg

national-maternity-review.jpg

259 ms

revalidation-news-thumbnail.jpg

revalidation-news-thumbnail.jpg

261 ms

hee-consultation-nurse-thumbnail.jpg

hee-consultation-nurse-thumbnail.jpg

263 ms

arrow-right.svg

arrow-right.svg

264 ms

the-code-thumbnail.png

the-code-thumbnail.png

529 ms

nmc_image01_carousel_640_320.jpg

nmc_image01_carousel_640_320.jpg

297 ms

midwifery_conference_carousel_650_325.jpg

midwifery_conference_carousel_650_325.jpg

330 ms

ftp_hearing_carousel_650_325.jpg

ftp_hearing_carousel_650_325.jpg

333 ms

student_nurses_carousel_650_325.jpg

student_nurses_carousel_650_325.jpg

497 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

378 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

406 ms

e089faeb-6b44-4090-91fc-906aec84c145.woff

e089faeb-6b44-4090-91fc-906aec84c145.woff

370 ms

c9f7fefc-34c7-437e-bbf0-664b1258bd0a.woff

c9f7fefc-34c7-437e-bbf0-664b1258bd0a.woff

381 ms

b6878f57-4d64-4d70-926d-fa4dec6173a5.woff

b6878f57-4d64-4d70-926d-fa4dec6173a5.woff

417 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

collect

collect

58 ms

carousel-prev.svg

carousel-prev.svg

230 ms

carousel-next.svg

carousel-next.svg

233 ms

Accessibility Review

nmc.org.uk accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

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.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

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

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

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

nmc.org.uk 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

SEO Factors

nmc.org.uk SEO score

86

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 Nmc.org.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 Nmc.org.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

nmc.org.uk

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