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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

nowca.org

NOWCA is the UK's largest network of safe open water swimming venues.

Page Load Speed

27.8 sec in total

First Response

4 sec

Resources Loaded

22.9 sec

Page Rendered

894 ms

nowca.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing NOWCA content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about nowca.org

Our mission is simple: More water. More people. More safely. We work with landowners and venue operators to help give swimming communities safe access to water that would otherwise be restricted. We w...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nowca.org page load time and found that the first response time was 4 sec and then it took 23.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nowca.org performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.162

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nowca.org

3971 ms

css

47 ms

wc-square-cart-checkout-blocks.min.css

388 ms

woocommerce-mod.css

536 ms

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352 ms

Our browser made a total of 180 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (152 requests) were addressed to the original Nowca.org, 3% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Nowca.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 416.8 kB (13%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nowca.org main page is 3.1 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. 75% 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 211.5 kB

  • Original 255.3 kB
  • After minification 248.9 kB
  • After compression 43.8 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. 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 211.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. NOWCA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 68.5 kB

  • Original 590.3 kB
  • After minification 588.1 kB
  • After compression 521.8 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 68.5 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 120.3 kB

  • Original 304.0 kB
  • After minification 292.2 kB
  • After compression 183.7 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. Nowca.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 120.3 kB or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 125 (75%)

Requests Now

167

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 167 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NOWCA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 60 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 67 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

nowca.org accessibility score

82

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

nowca.org best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

nowca.org SEO score

84

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

nowca.org

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