Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

ukschoolsigns.co.uk

UK School Signs | Signs Schools and Education | Custom School Signs

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

233 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

334 ms

ukschoolsigns.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing UK School Signs content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ukschoolsigns.co.uk

UK School Signs specialise in designing and manufacturing leading signage for schools & educational institutions, offering bespoke school signs across the UK.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ukschoolsigns.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 233 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

ukschoolsigns.co.uk performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.289

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ukschoolsigns.co.uk

233 ms

www.ukschoolsigns.co.uk

551 ms

css

53 ms

core.css

22 ms

js

106 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (71 requests) were addressed to the original Ukschoolsigns.co.uk, 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Ukschoolsigns.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 191.9 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Ukschoolsigns.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 57.4 kB

  • Original 65.2 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 23.2 kB, which is 36% 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 57.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 134.5 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. UK School Signs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 145.4 kB
  • After minification 145.4 kB
  • After compression 145.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 24 B

  • Original 39.4 kB
  • After minification 39.4 kB
  • After compression 39.4 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. Ukschoolsigns.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (6%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

64

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UK School Signs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ukschoolsigns.co.uk accessibility score

87

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

ukschoolsigns.co.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

SEO Factors

ukschoolsigns.co.uk SEO score

91

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

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 Ukschoolsigns.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 Ukschoolsigns.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of UK School Signs. 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: