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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

stepahead.co.uk

Step Ahead | Employability Experts - Recruiting & Staffing

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

310 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

407 ms

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About Website

Visit stepahead.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Step Ahead content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about stepahead.co.uk

We work across sectors in the United Kingdom (UK) to match people and jobs, combining expertise in recruitment, employability, and training.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stepahead.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 310 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stepahead.co.uk performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stepahead.co.uk

310 ms

stepahead.co.uk

1660 ms

cookie-law-info-public.css

272 ms

cookie-law-info-gdpr.css

273 ms

slick.css

309 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Stepahead.co.uk, 15% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Stepahead.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 455.1 kB (31%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stepahead.co.uk main page is 1.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 296.2 kB

  • Original 341.1 kB
  • After minification 337.0 kB
  • After compression 44.9 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. 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 296.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 156.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 902.8 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, Step Ahead needs image optimization as it can save up to 156.3 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 49.8 kB
  • After minification 49.8 kB
  • After compression 48.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 15.6 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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. Stepahead.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (41%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Step Ahead. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

stepahead.co.uk

stepahead.co.uk

310 ms

stepahead.co.uk

stepahead.co.uk

1660 ms

cookie-law-info-public.css

cookie-law-info-public.css

272 ms

cookie-law-info-gdpr.css

cookie-law-info-gdpr.css

273 ms

slick.css

slick.css

309 ms

wpls-public.css

wpls-public.css

311 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

346 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

163 ms

cookie-law-info-public.js

cookie-law-info-public.js

189 ms

et-divi-customizer-global.min.css

et-divi-customizer-global.min.css

202 ms

js

js

58 ms

js

js

106 ms

js

js

108 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

200 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

256 ms

cookie-law-info-table.css

cookie-law-info-table.css

272 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

574 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

215 ms

common.js

common.js

215 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

646 ms

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

356 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.js

wp-mediaelement.min.js

356 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

357 ms

wpls-public.js

wpls-public.js

357 ms

step-ahead-logo-white.png

step-ahead-logo-white.png

635 ms

job.png

job.png

324 ms

recuriting-128.png

recuriting-128.png

325 ms

employability-128.png

employability-128.png

552 ms

trainings-128.png

trainings-128.png

552 ms

preloader.gif

preloader.gif

630 ms

award-2021-training.jpg

award-2021-training.jpg

823 ms

012-resume-7.png

012-resume-7.png

713 ms

004-skills.png

004-skills.png

632 ms

019-curriculum.png

019-curriculum.png

799 ms

HOW_Logo_Black-scaled.jpg

HOW_Logo_Black-scaled.jpg

964 ms

Disability-Confident-Logo-valid-to-19-August-2024.png

Disability-Confident-Logo-valid-to-19-August-2024.png

805 ms

department_for_work_and_pensions.png

department_for_work_and_pensions.png

1103 ms

eu-union-robin.jpg

eu-union-robin.jpg

1026 ms

cyberessentials_certification-mark_mono-.png

cyberessentials_certification-mark_mono-.png

897 ms

logo_mayor-london.jpg

logo_mayor-london.jpg

1072 ms

matrix-quality-standard-for-information-advice-and-guidance-services.png

matrix-quality-standard-for-information-advice-and-guidance-services.png

912 ms

ISO-certification.png

ISO-certification.png

1229 ms

aelp-association-of-employment-and-learning-providers.png

aelp-association-of-employment-and-learning-providers.png

1002 ms

REC-Recruitment-and-Employment-Confederation.png

REC-Recruitment-and-Employment-Confederation.png

1055 ms

010-linkedin.png

010-linkedin.png

1180 ms

001-twitter.png

001-twitter.png

1413 ms

008-facebook.png

008-facebook.png

1322 ms

011-instagram.png

011-instagram.png

2060 ms

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1200 ms

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302 ms

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S6uyw4BMUTPHjxAwWw.ttf

432 ms

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302 ms

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S6u9w4BMUTPHh7USSwaPHA.ttf

450 ms

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S6u8w4BMUTPHh30AUi-s.woff

432 ms

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S6u8w4BMUTPHh30AUi-v.ttf

447 ms

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S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwaPHw.woff

447 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwaPHA.ttf

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwaPHA.ttf

449 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh50XSwaPHw.woff

S6u9w4BMUTPHh50XSwaPHw.woff

488 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh50XSwaPHA.ttf

S6u9w4BMUTPHh50XSwaPHA.ttf

488 ms

modules.ttf

modules.ttf

1302 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

811 ms

coding-background-texture.jpg

coding-background-texture.jpg

839 ms

step-ahead-logo-white.png

step-ahead-logo-white.png

761 ms

yk6y5uzgkwi1do6h3xuh7ip84pa3o3nn.js

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411 ms

render.650fa04aa0904bb4c961.js

render.650fa04aa0904bb4c961.js

34 ms

Accessibility Review

stepahead.co.uk accessibility score

94

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.

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

stepahead.co.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

stepahead.co.uk SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    UTF-8

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

stepahead.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Step Ahead. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: