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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

stepchange.org

StepChange Debt Charity. Free Expert Debt Help & Advice

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

261 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

384 ms

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About Website

Visit stepchange.org now to see the best up-to-date Step Change content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about stepchange.org

StepChange is the UK’s leading debt charity. Get expert debt help and advice and fee-free debt management to help you tackle your debts.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stepchange.org page load time and found that the first response time was 261 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stepchange.org performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.117

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stepchange.org

261 ms

www.stepchange.org

594 ms

gtm.js

60 ms

css

167 ms

js

257 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Stepchange.org, 13% (8 requests) were made to Fast.wistia.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (796 ms) belongs to the original domain Stepchange.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 108.1 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

900.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stepchange.org main page is 1.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 454.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 86.3 kB

  • Original 107.2 kB
  • After minification 85.7 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 21.4 kB, which is 20% 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 86.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 454.3 kB
  • After minification 439.1 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 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 426.6 kB
  • After minification 426.6 kB
  • After compression 421.6 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 20.3 kB
  • After minification 20.3 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (32%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

39

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Step Change. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

stepchange.org

stepchange.org

261 ms

www.stepchange.org

www.stepchange.org

594 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

60 ms

css

css

167 ms

js

js

257 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

326 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

408 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

331 ms

js

js

337 ms

style.css

style.css

330 ms

script.js

script.js

335 ms

vc9u62qjoz.jsonp

vc9u62qjoz.jsonp

15 ms

E-v1.js

E-v1.js

23 ms

swatch

swatch

6 ms

stepchange_logo.png

stepchange_logo.png

154 ms

line-search.png

line-search.png

156 ms

line-cross.png

line-cross.png

155 ms

line-account-charcoal.png

line-account-charcoal.png

157 ms

line-menu.png

line-menu.png

287 ms

line-search.webp

line-search.webp

284 ms

line-account-purple.png

line-account-purple.png

285 ms

line-chevron-down.png

line-chevron-down.png

286 ms

line-future-changes.png

line-future-changes.png

286 ms

Icons_fill-facebook.webp

Icons_fill-facebook.webp

287 ms

Icons_fill-twitter.webp

Icons_fill-twitter.webp

306 ms

Icons_fill-linkedin.webp

Icons_fill-linkedin.webp

304 ms

line-lock-orange.png

line-lock-orange.png

313 ms

line-get-advice.png

line-get-advice.png

314 ms

fill-confirm.png

fill-confirm.png

314 ms

stars.png

stars.png

315 ms

feefo-vector-logo-white.svg

feefo-vector-logo-white.svg

389 ms

line-lock.png

line-lock.png

388 ms

banner-mountains.svg

banner-mountains.svg

393 ms

stars.png

stars.png

392 ms

feefo-black.png

feefo-black.png

396 ms

speechbubbles.svg

speechbubbles.svg

390 ms

lighthouse.svg

lighthouse.svg

470 ms

cointimer.svg

cointimer.svg

466 ms

client-quote-jamie-min.png

client-quote-jamie-min.png

711 ms

client-quote-sarah-min.png

client-quote-sarah-min.png

557 ms

client-quote-matt-min.png

client-quote-matt-min.png

796 ms

house-moneybox.svg

house-moneybox.svg

687 ms

lightbulb.svg

lightbulb.svg

548 ms

poundhand.svg

poundhand.svg

551 ms

5star.svg

5star.svg

575 ms

footer-people.png

footer-people.png

576 ms

Facebook.png

Facebook.png

580 ms

Twitter.png

Twitter.png

648 ms

YouTube.png

YouTube.png

653 ms

LinkedIn.png

LinkedIn.png

573 ms

feefo-platinum-2022.png

feefo-platinum-2022.png

620 ms

stepchange_logo.png

stepchange_logo.png

642 ms

dots-side.svg

dots-side.svg

613 ms

Degular-Bold.woff

Degular-Bold.woff

516 ms

Degular-Regular.woff

Degular-Regular.woff

522 ms

stepchange.woff

stepchange.woff

550 ms

externalPlayer.js

externalPlayer.js

23 ms

customerLogo.js

customerLogo.js

44 ms

captions.js

captions.js

27 ms

share-v2.js

share-v2.js

6 ms

postRoll-v2.js

postRoll-v2.js

38 ms

2c57eb3c3628bccec31055d2b1160a19.jpg

2c57eb3c3628bccec31055d2b1160a19.jpg

22 ms

Accessibility Review

stepchange.org accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

stepchange.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

stepchange.org SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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