Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

sthelensccg.nhs.uk

St Helens Clinical Commisioning Group - NHS St Helens CCG Website

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

249 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

933 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sthelensccg.nhs.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 249 ms and then it took 6.4 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

sthelensccg.nhs.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,740 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.112

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value47.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sthelensccg.nhs.uk

249 ms

sthelensccg.nhs.uk

1044 ms

bootstrap.css

351 ms

site.css

408 ms

sitemediaqueries.css

407 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Sthelensccg.nhs.uk, 18% (13 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 11% (8 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Sthelensccg.nhs.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (18%)

Content Size

8.4 MB

After Optimization

6.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Sthelensccg.nhs.uk main page is 8.4 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. 80% 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 7.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 153.5 kB

  • Original 176.6 kB
  • After minification 106.5 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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 70.1 kB, which is 40% 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 153.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 602.8 kB

  • Original 7.3 MB
  • After minification 6.7 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. St Helens CCG images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 290.3 kB

  • Original 409.7 kB
  • After minification 310.6 kB
  • After compression 119.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 290.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 442.3 kB

  • Original 520.5 kB
  • After minification 486.3 kB
  • After compression 78.2 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. Sthelensccg.nhs.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 442.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (45%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of St Helens CCG. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sthelensccg.nhs.uk accessibility score

90

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

sthelensccg.nhs.uk best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sthelensccg.nhs.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Sthelensccg.nhs.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 Sthelensccg.nhs.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 description is not detected on the main page of St Helens CCG. 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: