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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

sherborne.org

Sherborne School | An HMC All Boys' Boarding School in Dorset for ages 13 to 18

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

243 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

326 ms

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About Website

Welcome to sherborne.org homepage info - get ready to check Sherborne best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about sherborne.org

A British independent boys' private boarding and day school, in north-west Dorset. An internationally known school of high standing for ages 13 to 18.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sherborne.org page load time and found that the first response time was 243 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sherborne.org performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,710 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sherborne.org

243 ms

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423 ms

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419 ms

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524 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (105 requests) were addressed to the original Sherborne.org, 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Sherborne.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.8 MB (12%)

Content Size

23.3 MB

After Optimization

20.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sherborne.org main page is 23.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 22.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 48.8 kB

  • Original 57.1 kB
  • After minification 55.0 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 48.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 2.6 MB

  • Original 22.9 MB
  • After minification 20.3 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, Sherborne needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.6 MB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 166.1 kB

  • Original 262.8 kB
  • After minification 247.1 kB
  • After compression 96.7 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 166.1 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 38.4 kB

  • Original 50.0 kB
  • After minification 48.4 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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. Sherborne.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (23%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

82

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sherborne. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sherborne.org

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243 ms

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423 ms

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419 ms

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Accessibility Review

sherborne.org accessibility score

77

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

SEO Factors

sherborne.org SEO score

85

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sherborne.org 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 Sherborne.org 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

sherborne.org

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