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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

theskillsservice.co.uk

Welcome to The Skills Service | Nationwide Skills Brokerage | United Kingdom

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

855 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

125 ms

theskillsservice.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit theskillsservice.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date The Skills Service content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about theskillsservice.co.uk

Responding to business needs to fill skills gaps and develop employability skills in young people, we offer a nationwide Skills Brokerage service between businesses and schools, along with other organ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theskillsservice.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 855 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theskillsservice.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,750 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.theskillsservice.co.uk

855 ms

minified.js

75 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

69 ms

polyfill.min.js

161 ms

bootstrap-features.1a99b4a8.bundle.min.js

117 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Theskillsservice.co.uk, 62% (16 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 12% (3 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (855 ms) belongs to the original domain Theskillsservice.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 734.5 kB (75%)

Content Size

983.9 kB

After Optimization

249.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Theskillsservice.co.uk main page is 983.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 906.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 728.4 kB

  • Original 906.2 kB
  • After minification 904.3 kB
  • After compression 177.8 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 728.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 29.9 kB
  • After minification 23.9 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. Obviously, The Skills Service needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.0 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 67 B

  • Original 47.8 kB
  • After minification 47.8 kB
  • After compression 47.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (48%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Skills Service. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.theskillsservice.co.uk

www.theskillsservice.co.uk

855 ms

minified.js

minified.js

75 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

focus-within-polyfill.js

69 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

161 ms

bootstrap-features.1a99b4a8.bundle.min.js

bootstrap-features.1a99b4a8.bundle.min.js

117 ms

main.24eb524d.bundle.min.js

main.24eb524d.bundle.min.js

124 ms

lodash.min.js

lodash.min.js

124 ms

react.production.min.js

react.production.min.js

122 ms

siteTags.bundle.min.js

siteTags.bundle.min.js

163 ms

app.bundle.min.js

app.bundle.min.js

163 ms

wix-perf-measure.bundle.min.js

wix-perf-measure.bundle.min.js

163 ms

react-dom.production.min.js

react-dom.production.min.js

226 ms

thunderbolt

thunderbolt

76 ms

conductAllInScope

conductAllInScope

173 ms

conductExperiment

conductExperiment

170 ms

elementory-browser-support.min.js

elementory-browser-support.min.js

5 ms

thunderbolt

thunderbolt

173 ms

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11062b_81aaa807e4ac491b93ba3555ad009b98f000.jpg

149 ms

Skills%20Main%20White%20-%20Cropped.png

Skills%20Main%20White%20-%20Cropped.png

319 ms

Part%20of%20Logo%20(1).png

Part%20of%20Logo%20(1).png

339 ms

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STBOO2waD2LpX45SXYjQBRsxEYwM7FgeyaSgU71cLG0.woff

11 ms

WmVKXVcOuffP_qmCpFuyzRsxEYwM7FgeyaSgU71cLG0.woff

WmVKXVcOuffP_qmCpFuyzRsxEYwM7FgeyaSgU71cLG0.woff

8 ms

deprecation-en.v5.html

deprecation-en.v5.html

14 ms

bolt-performance

bolt-performance

66 ms

deprecation-style.v5.css

deprecation-style.v5.css

24 ms

right-arrow.svg

right-arrow.svg

21 ms

Accessibility Review

theskillsservice.co.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

theskillsservice.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

theskillsservice.co.uk SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Theskillsservice.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 Theskillsservice.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

theskillsservice.co.uk

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