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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

blog.sage.co.uk

Sage Advice United Kingdom - Wisdom for smarter businesses

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

336 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

559 ms

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About Website

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Sage Advice UK - the best advice on everything from managing money to people. Tailored advice for startups, small businesses, enterprises and accountants.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.sage.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 336 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.sage.co.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,330 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.sage.co.uk

336 ms

244 ms

style.min.css

43 ms

frontend-styles.css

80 ms

style.css

105 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.sage.co.uk, 66% (61 requests) were made to Sage.com and 13% (12 requests) were made to Buzzsprout.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (774 ms) relates to the external source Sage.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 154.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.sage.co.uk main page is 1.9 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 150.7 kB

  • Original 178.4 kB
  • After minification 178.3 kB
  • After compression 27.8 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 150.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 975 B

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Blog Sage images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 539 B

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 55.7 kB
  • After compression 55.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 79.5 kB
  • After minification 79.5 kB
  • After compression 76.9 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. Blog.sage.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (52%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Sage. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

blog.sage.co.uk accessibility score

84

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

blog.sage.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blog.sage.co.uk SEO score

93

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 Blog.sage.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 Blog.sage.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

blog.sage.co.uk

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