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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

theassayoffice.com

Birmingham Assay Office | Hallmarking precious metals

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

267 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theassayoffice.com page load time and found that the first response time was 267 ms and then it took 5.3 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

theassayoffice.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value35.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value46.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theassayoffice.com

267 ms

www.theassayoffice.co.uk

1456 ms

loftloader.min.css

167 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

397 ms

styles.css

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Theassayoffice.com, 95% (108 requests) were made to Theassayoffice.co.uk and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Theassayoffice.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.0 MB (21%)

Content Size

14.5 MB

After Optimization

11.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theassayoffice.com main page is 14.5 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. 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 11.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 113.1 kB

  • Original 137.1 kB
  • After minification 134.4 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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 113.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 133.6 kB

  • Original 11.2 MB
  • After minification 11.0 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. The Assay Office images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 976.9 kB
  • After compression 272.3 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 1.3 MB or 83% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 179.2 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. Theassayoffice.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 81 (74%)

Requests Now

110

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 110 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Assay Office. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 40 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theassayoffice.com

theassayoffice.com

267 ms

www.theassayoffice.co.uk

www.theassayoffice.co.uk

1456 ms

loftloader.min.css

loftloader.min.css

167 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

sbi-styles.min.css

397 ms

styles.css

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244 ms

jquery.datetimepicker.min.css

jquery.datetimepicker.min.css

325 ms

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244 ms

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319 ms

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246 ms

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554 ms

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324 ms

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327 ms

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401 ms

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481 ms

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791 ms

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711 ms

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723 ms

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793 ms

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805 ms

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866 ms

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881 ms

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64 ms

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882 ms

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282 ms

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672 ms

Accessibility Review

theassayoffice.com accessibility score

85

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

theassayoffice.com 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

theassayoffice.com SEO score

91

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 Theassayoffice.com 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 Theassayoffice.com 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

theassayoffice.com

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