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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

stepchange-design.co.uk

Care Home Garden Design | Relationship Centred Design | Step Change Design Ltd

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

530 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

556 ms

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About Website

Welcome to stepchange-design.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Step Change Design best content right away, or after learning these important things about stepchange-design.co.uk

Supporting Care Homes and Garden Designers in delivering garden designs within a Relationship-Centred Design approach enabling residents to engage outside more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stepchange-design.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 530 ms and then it took 6 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

stepchange-design.co.uk performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,840 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.995

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.1 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stepchange-design.co.uk

530 ms

5x0a1.css

435 ms

5x17a.css

334 ms

5x0a1.css

501 ms

5x0a1.css

353 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Stepchange-design.co.uk, 16% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Stepchange-design.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 427.6 kB (22%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stepchange-design.co.uk main page is 2.0 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 777.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 268.5 kB

  • Original 316.1 kB
  • After minification 309.6 kB
  • After compression 47.6 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. 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 268.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 76.0 kB

  • Original 777.1 kB
  • After minification 701.1 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. Step Change Design images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 59.4 kB

  • Original 762.8 kB
  • After minification 762.6 kB
  • After compression 703.4 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

-19%

Potential reduce by 23.7 kB

  • Original 125.0 kB
  • After minification 124.7 kB
  • After compression 101.3 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. Stepchange-design.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.7 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (73%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Step Change Design. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

stepchange-design.co.uk accessibility score

79

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

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

stepchange-design.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

stepchange-design.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Stepchange-design.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 Stepchange-design.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

stepchange-design.co.uk

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