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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

ukas.com

UKAS - The UK Accreditation Body - Creating Confidence

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

70 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Welcome to ukas.com homepage info - get ready to check UKAS best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about ukas.com

The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) assess and accredit organisations that provide certification, testing, inspection and calibration services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ukas.com page load time and found that the first response time was 70 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ukas.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,750 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ukas.com

70 ms

ukas.com

68 ms

www.ukas.com

95 ms

job-listings.css

55 ms

style.css

137 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Ukas.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Ukas.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 223.0 kB (3%)

Content Size

8.2 MB

After Optimization

8.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ukas.com main page is 8.2 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 7.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 160.7 kB

  • Original 208.7 kB
  • After minification 208.3 kB
  • After compression 48.0 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 160.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 7.5 MB
  • After minification 7.5 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. UKAS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 404.8 kB
  • After minification 404.8 kB
  • After compression 391.9 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

-74%

Potential reduce by 49.4 kB

  • Original 66.8 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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. Ukas.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 49.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (45%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UKAS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ukas.com

ukas.com

70 ms

ukas.com

ukas.com

68 ms

www.ukas.com

www.ukas.com

95 ms

job-listings.css

job-listings.css

55 ms

style.css

style.css

137 ms

default.css

default.css

160 ms

primary.css

primary.css

87 ms

app.css

app.css

36 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

24 ms

frontend.js

frontend.js

34 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

49 ms

api.js

api.js

58 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

50 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

75 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

65 ms

index.js

index.js

117 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

116 ms

maxmegamenu.js

maxmegamenu.js

117 ms

app.js

app.js

118 ms

functions.js

functions.js

117 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

337 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

272 ms

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MicrosoftTeams-image-19.png

368 ms

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route-to-accreditation-1024x617.png

270 ms

UKAS-online-Training-Academy-1024x542.png

UKAS-online-Training-Academy-1024x542.png

373 ms

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WAD24-1024x536.png

268 ms

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372 ms

cross-repeater.svg

cross-repeater.svg

267 ms

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369 ms

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Resource_Image_27_2048x1138px-1920x1067.jpg

370 ms

Resource_Image_30_2048x1138px-1920x1068.jpg

Resource_Image_30_2048x1138px-1920x1068.jpg

371 ms

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neurophysiology.png

585 ms

UKAS_SectorHero-Safety-1920x1067.jpg

UKAS_SectorHero-Safety-1920x1067.jpg

453 ms

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iStock-1178376578-1920x1281.jpg

452 ms

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iStock-995757216-1-1024x569.jpg

451 ms

UKAS_SectorHero-Safety-1024x569.jpg

UKAS_SectorHero-Safety-1024x569.jpg

536 ms

UKAS_LandingPage-Hero4-1024x569.jpg

UKAS_LandingPage-Hero4-1024x569.jpg

537 ms

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shutterstock_1078854527@2x-1920x1278.png

738 ms

global-website.png

global-website.png

652 ms

AI-summit-resized2.png

AI-summit-resized2.png

688 ms

ISMS-update-1-1024x536.png

ISMS-update-1-1024x536.png

684 ms

cross-repeater-wht.svg

cross-repeater-wht.svg

680 ms

icon-construction.svg

icon-construction.svg

721 ms

icon-linkedin.svg

icon-linkedin.svg

670 ms

icon-youtube.svg

icon-youtube.svg

687 ms

icon-twitter.svg

icon-twitter.svg

894 ms

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677 ms

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825 ms

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827 ms

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1001 ms

uc.js

uc.js

26 ms

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43 ms

267612.js

267612.js

58 ms

main.js

main.js

176 ms

Accessibility Review

ukas.com accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

ukas.com best practices score

75

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ukas.com SEO score

82

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

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 Ukas.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 Ukas.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

ukas.com

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