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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

sthk.nhs.uk

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - MWL NHS | Welcome to Mersey West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

200 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

939 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Sthk content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sthk.nhs.uk

We serve a population of over 600,000, delivering acute hospital care, intermediate care, primary care, and community-based services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sthk.nhs.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 200 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sthk.nhs.uk performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,760 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sthk.nhs.uk

200 ms

sthk.nhs.uk

358 ms

www.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk

705 ms

foundation-float.min.css

95 ms

motion-ui.min.css

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Sthk.nhs.uk, 69% (44 requests) were made to Merseywestlancs.nhs.uk and 8% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (868 ms) relates to the external source Merseywestlancs.nhs.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (20%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sthk.nhs.uk main page is 5.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 106.1 kB

  • Original 123.2 kB
  • After minification 81.6 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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 41.5 kB, which is 34% 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 106.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 175.9 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.8 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. Sthk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 451.2 kB

  • Original 611.4 kB
  • After minification 581.3 kB
  • After compression 160.2 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 451.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 274.9 kB

  • Original 311.2 kB
  • After minification 261.1 kB
  • After compression 36.3 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. Sthk.nhs.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 274.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (68%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sthk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sthk.nhs.uk

sthk.nhs.uk

200 ms

sthk.nhs.uk

sthk.nhs.uk

358 ms

www.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk

www.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk

705 ms

foundation-float.min.css

foundation-float.min.css

95 ms

motion-ui.min.css

motion-ui.min.css

100 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

jquery-ui.min.css

270 ms

style.css

style.css

264 ms

style.css

style.css

270 ms

style.css

style.css

267 ms

style.css

style.css

266 ms

material-components-web.min.css

material-components-web.min.css

99 ms

animate.css

animate.css

450 ms

hover.min.css

hover.min.css

593 ms

main.css

main.css

520 ms

queries.mobiles.css

queries.mobiles.css

437 ms

queries.tablets.css

queries.tablets.css

358 ms

queries.laptops.css

queries.laptops.css

355 ms

cc_forms.css

cc_forms.css

447 ms

smartphoto.min.css

smartphoto.min.css

451 ms

cc_gallery.css

cc_gallery.css

528 ms

grid.css

grid.css

538 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

539 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

797 ms

news.js

news.js

608 ms

slick.js

slick.js

627 ms

material-components-web.min.js

material-components-web.min.js

110 ms

cc_forms.js

cc_forms.js

633 ms

smartphoto.min.js

smartphoto.min.js

758 ms

smartphoto.init.js

smartphoto.init.js

696 ms

icon

icon

96 ms

icon

icon

112 ms

slick.min.css

slick.min.css

83 ms

accessible-slick-theme.min.css

accessible-slick-theme.min.css

92 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

868 ms

jquery.scrollTo.min.js

jquery.scrollTo.min.js

92 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

91 ms

balancetext.min.js

balancetext.min.js

293 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

96 ms

accessibility.js

accessibility.js

851 ms

ccore-nav-mobile.js

ccore-nav-mobile.js

719 ms

element.js

element.js

107 ms

app.js

app.js

784 ms

js

js

120 ms

material-components-web.min.js

material-components-web.min.js

18 ms

widget.js

widget.js

49 ms

cookiebanner.js

cookiebanner.js

690 ms

css

css

17 ms

speak-or-translate2.png

speak-or-translate2.png

99 ms

Whiston%201.jpeg

Whiston%201.jpeg

533 ms

Southport-hospital.jpeg

Southport-hospital.jpeg

182 ms

St%20Helens%201.jpeg

St%20Helens%201.jpeg

194 ms

Ormskirk-hospital.jpeg

Ormskirk-hospital.jpeg

260 ms

Newton%20hospital.jpeg

Newton%20hospital.jpeg

448 ms

Millenium%20Centre%20-%20Urgent%20Treatment%20Centre.jpeg

Millenium%20Centre%20-%20Urgent%20Treatment%20Centre.jpeg

194 ms

marshall_cross.jpg

marshall_cross.jpg

266 ms

Community-web.png

Community-web.png

279 ms

MWL%20Logo%20for%20News%20Items%20Website.png

MWL%20Logo%20for%20News%20Items%20Website.png

282 ms

Peter%20Williams%20Walkabout%20for%20News%20Item.png

Peter%20Williams%20Walkabout%20for%20News%20Item.png

456 ms

PM%20Letter%20for%20News%20Item.png

PM%20Letter%20for%20News%20Item.png

362 ms

Shaping%20Care%20Together%20News%20Image%20Original%20copy.png

Shaping%20Care%20Together%20News%20Image%20Original%20copy.png

372 ms

HateCrimeLogo.png

HateCrimeLogo.png

374 ms

ann_marr.jpg

ann_marr.jpg

453 ms

font

font

76 ms

MWL_wave.png

MWL_wave.png

338 ms

Accessibility Review

sthk.nhs.uk accessibility score

96

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

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

sthk.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

sthk.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 Sthk.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 Sthk.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

sthk.nhs.uk

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