Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

philhirst.co.uk

Phil Hirst Driving Instructor Trainer – Professional training, coaching and consultancy for potential and qualified driving instructors throughout the...

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

292 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

404 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Philhirst.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 292 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

philhirst.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.6 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

philhirst.co.uk

292 ms

www.philhirst.co.uk

42 ms

select2.min.css

17 ms

iconfonts.css

19 ms

frontend.min.css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Philhirst.co.uk, 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (643 ms) belongs to the original domain Philhirst.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 317.1 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Philhirst.co.uk main page is 2.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 112.8 kB

  • Original 137.6 kB
  • After minification 134.7 kB
  • After compression 24.7 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. 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 112.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 259 B

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Phil Hirst images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 156.1 kB

  • Original 715.0 kB
  • After minification 697.0 kB
  • After compression 558.9 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 156.1 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 47.9 kB

  • Original 249.1 kB
  • After minification 248.9 kB
  • After compression 201.2 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. Philhirst.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47.9 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 67 (89%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Phil Hirst. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 33 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

philhirst.co.uk accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

philhirst.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

philhirst.co.uk SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Philhirst.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 Philhirst.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 description is not detected on the main page of Phil Hirst. 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: