Report Summary

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    Performance

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    Accessibility

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    Best Practices

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practice-it.co.uk

Practice Labs | Hands-on Learning for Digital & IT Skills

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

125 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

2.5 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Practice-it.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 125 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

practice-it.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

skills.practice-labs.com

125 ms

css2

57 ms

main.min.css

44 ms

aos.min.css

78 ms

module_41695985619_menu-section.min.css

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Practice-it.co.uk, 9% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Cdn2.hubspot.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (700 ms) relates to the external source Skills.practice-labs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 376.8 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Practice-it.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 86.8 kB

  • Original 103.2 kB
  • After minification 85.9 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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 17.3 kB, which is 17% 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 86.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 286.9 kB

  • Original 1.5 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. Obviously, Practice It needs image optimization as it can save up to 286.9 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 307 B

  • Original 22.2 kB
  • After minification 22.2 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 18.2 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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. Practice-it.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (52%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Practice It. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

practice-it.co.uk SEO score

0

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