Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

springboard-ne.org.uk

Springboard North East | Courses, Training and Apprenticeships

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

647 ms

Resources Loaded

6.4 sec

Page Rendered

718 ms

springboard-ne.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Springboard Ne content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about springboard-ne.org.uk

Springboard is a training provider based in the North East and offers free courses, study programmes and apprenticeships.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Springboard-ne.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 647 ms and then it took 7.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

springboard-ne.org.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,230 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.263

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

springboard-ne.org.uk

647 ms

mtf6dkk.css

3669 ms

main.min.css

270 ms

slick.css

266 ms

jquery.min.js

365 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Springboard-ne.org.uk, 7% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 387.7 kB (15%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Springboard-ne.org.uk main page is 2.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 95.1 kB

  • Original 109.9 kB
  • After minification 97.5 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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 12.5 kB, which is 11% 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 95.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 29.9 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Springboard Ne images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 262.6 kB

  • Original 417.4 kB
  • After minification 417.4 kB
  • After compression 154.8 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 262.6 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 144 B

  • Original 9.9 kB
  • After minification 9.9 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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. Springboard-ne.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (31%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Springboard Ne. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

springboard-ne.org.uk accessibility score

80

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

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

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.

Best Practices

springboard-ne.org.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

springboard-ne.org.uk SEO score

78

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Springboard-ne.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 Springboard-ne.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 Springboard Ne. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: