Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

scrss.org.uk

SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies

Page Load Speed

611 ms in total

First Response

103 ms

Resources Loaded

408 ms

Page Rendered

100 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing SCRSS content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about scrss.org.uk

The SCRSS promotes knowledge of the culture, language and history of Russia and the former Soviet Union. This educational charity, based in London, houses an important library, archive and photographi...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scrss.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 103 ms and then it took 508 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scrss.org.uk performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scrss.org.uk

103 ms

scrss.png

83 ms

spacer.gif

65 ms

home_down.png

59 ms

aboutus_up.png

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Scrss.org.uk, 12% (2 requests) were made to Count.carrierzone.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (218 ms) relates to the external source Count.carrierzone.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 106.1 kB (56%)

Content Size

188.0 kB

After Optimization

81.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Scrss.org.uk main page is 188.0 kB. 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 141.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 10.5 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.6 kB, which is 15% 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 7.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 67.8 kB

  • Original 141.4 kB
  • After minification 73.6 kB

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, SCRSS needs image optimization as it can save up to 67.8 kB or 48% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 36.0 kB
  • After minification 23.8 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 30.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SCRSS. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

scrss.org.uk accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

scrss.org.uk 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

scrss.org.uk SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Scrss.org.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Scrss.org.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of SCRSS. 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: