Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

smc.org.uk

Scottish Mountaineering Club

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

356 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

182 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smc.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 356 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smc.org.uk performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smc.org.uk

356 ms

corporatestyle.css

173 ms

javascripts.js

183 ms

header.js

186 ms

Ticker.js

199 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Smc.org.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (836 ms) belongs to the original domain Smc.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 47.1 kB (17%)

Content Size

282.0 kB

After Optimization

234.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Smc.org.uk main page is 282.0 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 244.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 10.8 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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 2.0 kB, which is 18% 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 8.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 31.9 kB

  • Original 244.5 kB
  • After minification 212.6 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, Smc needs image optimization as it can save up to 31.9 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 19.5 kB
  • After minification 19.0 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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

-79%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 7.1 kB
  • After minification 5.7 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Smc.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (48%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smc.org.uk accessibility score

85

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

smc.org.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

smc.org.uk SEO score

79

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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