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Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

sscalliance.org

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Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

554 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

176 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sscalliance.org page load time and found that the first response time was 554 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sscalliance.org performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sscalliance.org

554 ms

css

26 ms

genericons.css

537 ms

style.css

621 ms

page-list.css

350 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Sscalliance.org, 90% (45 requests) were made to Afo.sscalliance.org and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (737 ms) relates to the external source Afo.sscalliance.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 311.7 kB (36%)

Content Size

855.6 kB

After Optimization

543.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sscalliance.org main page is 855.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 511.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 14.6 kB
  • After minification 13.8 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 10.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 56.4 kB

  • Original 511.3 kB
  • After minification 454.9 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, Sscalliance needs image optimization as it can save up to 56.4 kB 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

-65%

Potential reduce by 91.0 kB

  • Original 139.3 kB
  • After minification 136.7 kB
  • After compression 48.3 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 91.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 153.5 kB

  • Original 190.4 kB
  • After minification 150.9 kB
  • After compression 36.9 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. Sscalliance.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 153.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (49%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sscalliance. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sscalliance.org

sscalliance.org

554 ms

css

css

26 ms

genericons.css

genericons.css

537 ms

style.css

style.css

621 ms

page-list.css

page-list.css

350 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

704 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

443 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

535 ms

sifr.css

sifr.css

447 ms

style.css

style.css

542 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

10 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

14 ms

functions.js

functions.js

540 ms

sifr.js

sifr.js

737 ms

sifr-config.js

sifr-config.js

620 ms

jquery-cookie.js

jquery-cookie.js

632 ms

sessioncheck.cfm

sessioncheck.cfm

93 ms

header-bg.jpg

header-bg.jpg

96 ms

fisss_logo.png

fisss_logo.png

179 ms

feature8.png

feature8.png

456 ms

feature1-image.jpg

feature1-image.jpg

207 ms

feature2-image.jpg

feature2-image.jpg

292 ms

feature3-image.jpg

feature3-image.jpg

294 ms

53870AFC_D845_5181_0C41F35DC75274A8.gif

53870AFC_D845_5181_0C41F35DC75274A8.gif

193 ms

A85EEF4E_05EC_8BD7_3030CB059C6DC333.gif

A85EEF4E_05EC_8BD7_3030CB059C6DC333.gif

271 ms

63616934_E3EC_3E1C_15FA604100EF1725.gif

63616934_E3EC_3E1C_15FA604100EF1725.gif

282 ms

logo-welsh.gif

logo-welsh.gif

299 ms

logo-english.gif

logo-english.gif

395 ms

login-right-bg.gif

login-right-bg.gif

361 ms

login-left-bg.gif

login-left-bg.gif

359 ms

intro-bg.jpg

intro-bg.jpg

373 ms

apprenticeship-frameworks-logo.gif

apprenticeship-frameworks-logo.gif

363 ms

searchform-left-bg.gif

searchform-left-bg.gif

446 ms

searchform-right-bg.gif

searchform-right-bg.gif

447 ms

greyForm-button-bg.jpg

greyForm-button-bg.jpg

449 ms

nav-page-bg.jpg

nav-page-bg.jpg

449 ms

nav-bg.jpg

nav-bg.jpg

462 ms

nav-on-bg.jpg

nav-on-bg.jpg

519 ms

homeContent-bg.jpg

homeContent-bg.jpg

536 ms

features-top-bg.jpg

features-top-bg.jpg

545 ms

features-buttons-bg.jpg

features-buttons-bg.jpg

543 ms

promoPanel-bg.jpg

promoPanel-bg.jpg

536 ms

promoPanel-inner-bg.jpg

promoPanel-inner-bg.jpg

556 ms

panel1-bg.jpg

panel1-bg.jpg

612 ms

arrow-blue.gif

arrow-blue.gif

623 ms

panel2-bg.jpg

panel2-bg.jpg

625 ms

panel3-bg.jpg

panel3-bg.jpg

630 ms

logoArea-bg.jpg

logoArea-bg.jpg

639 ms

footer-bg.jpg

footer-bg.jpg

644 ms

print.css

print.css

103 ms

Accessibility Review

sscalliance.org accessibility score

93

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.

Best Practices

sscalliance.org 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sscalliance.org SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    WINDOWS-1250

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sscalliance.org 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 Sscalliance.org main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1250. 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

sscalliance.org

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