Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

volunteering.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk

The UK National Volunteer Charity | Royal Voluntary Service

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

volunteering.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk screenshot

About Website

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Royal Voluntary Service is a national charity built on local volunteering, giving support to people in need in NHS hospitals and communities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Volunteering.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 173 ms and then it took 4.2 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

volunteering.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,200 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

volunteering.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk

173 ms

www.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk

763 ms

swiper-bundle.min.css

57 ms

ysv4mkn.css

110 ms

main.css

345 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Volunteering.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk, 48% (38 requests) were made to Royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk and 13% (10 requests) were made to Eqtrneuprod01rvssa.blob.core.windows.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 695.4 kB (12%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Volunteering.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk main page is 5.6 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. 85% 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 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 207.9 kB

  • Original 344.7 kB
  • After minification 323.7 kB
  • After compression 136.8 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 207.9 kB or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 49.8 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.3 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. Volunteer Ing Royal Voluntary Service images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 260.0 kB

  • Original 637.5 kB
  • After minification 637.3 kB
  • After compression 377.4 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 260.0 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 177.6 kB

  • Original 267.8 kB
  • After minification 266.3 kB
  • After compression 90.2 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. Volunteering.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 177.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (31%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Volunteer Ing Royal Voluntary Service. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

volunteering.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk accessibility score

91

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.

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

Best Practices

volunteering.royalvoluntaryservice.org.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

volunteering.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk SEO score

93

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

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

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 Volunteering.royalvoluntaryservice.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 Volunteering.royalvoluntaryservice.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

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