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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 85

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

northernspeech.com

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Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

150 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

189 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northernspeech.com page load time and found that the first response time was 150 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northernspeech.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value620 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northernspeech.com

150 ms

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

557 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

231 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

281 ms

jquery.ui.touch-punch.min.js

266 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Northernspeech.com, 29% (25 requests) were made to Secure.northernspeech.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (850 ms) belongs to the original domain Northernspeech.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 996.2 kB (62%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

608.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northernspeech.com main page is 1.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 977.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 33.8 kB

  • Original 41.6 kB
  • After minification 31.5 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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 10.1 kB, which is 24% 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 33.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 289.2 kB
  • After minification 272.3 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. Northern Speech images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 694.7 kB

  • Original 977.9 kB
  • After minification 907.8 kB
  • After compression 283.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 694.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 250.8 kB

  • Original 295.5 kB
  • After minification 243.3 kB
  • After compression 44.8 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. Northernspeech.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 250.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (70%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northern Speech. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

northernspeech.com

northernspeech.com

150 ms

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jquery-1.11.2.min.js

557 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

231 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

281 ms

jquery.ui.touch-punch.min.js

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266 ms

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218 ms

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264 ms

jquery.validate.1.11.js

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245 ms

additional-methods.min.js

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242 ms

checkout.php

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282 ms

popup_bubble_javascript.js

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522 ms

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279 ms

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276 ms

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291 ms

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288 ms

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290 ms

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290 ms

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303 ms

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366 ms

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368 ms

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364 ms

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433 ms

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397 ms

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32 ms

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11 ms

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31 ms

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65 ms

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17 ms

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55 ms

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17 ms

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54 ms

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121 ms

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homeEcoursesImg.jpg

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850 ms

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12 ms

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89 ms

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25 ms

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jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

23 ms

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jquery-ui.min.js

43 ms

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jquery.ui.touch-punch.min.js

22 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

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30 ms

jquery-scrollto.js

jquery-scrollto.js

30 ms

jquery.validate.1.11.js

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33 ms

additional-methods.min.js

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34 ms

checkout.php

checkout.php

67 ms

popup_bubble_javascript.js

popup_bubble_javascript.js

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javascript.js

javascript.js

56 ms

main.js

main.js

60 ms

p7popmenu.js

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59 ms

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Accessibility Review

northernspeech.com accessibility score

72

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have [alt] text

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

Tables and lists

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

Impact

Issue

High

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

Best Practices

northernspeech.com best practices score

85

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

northernspeech.com SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Northernspeech.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Northernspeech.com 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

northernspeech.com

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