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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

wellscathedralschool.co.uk

Independent School in Somerset | Day & Boarding | Wells Cathedral School

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

480 ms

wellscathedralschool.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit wellscathedralschool.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Wells Cathedral School content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about wellscathedralschool.co.uk

We are an independent school in Somerset with private day and boarding schools for 2-18 year olds. We provide all-around education & world-class specialist music studies.

Visit wellscathedralschool.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Wellscathedralschool.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wellscathedralschool.co.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value46.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,020 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value43.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wellscathedralschool.co.uk

54 ms

wells.cathedral.school

791 ms

js

72 ms

select2.min.css

275 ms

iconfonts.css

277 ms

Our browser made a total of 151 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wellscathedralschool.co.uk, 75% (113 requests) were made to Wells.cathedral.school and 7% (11 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Wells.cathedral.school.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 517.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

7.9 MB

After Optimization

7.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wellscathedralschool.co.uk main page is 7.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 156.4 kB

  • Original 188.7 kB
  • After minification 188.6 kB
  • After compression 32.4 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 156.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 357.1 kB

  • Original 5.6 MB
  • After minification 5.3 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. Wells Cathedral School images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 2.0 MB

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 0 B

  • Original 59.9 kB
  • After minification 59.9 kB
  • After compression 59.9 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. Wellscathedralschool.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 94 (68%)

Requests Now

138

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 138 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wells Cathedral School. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 60 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 36 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wellscathedralschool.co.uk

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54 ms

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Accessibility Review

wellscathedralschool.co.uk accessibility score

77

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

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

wellscathedralschool.co.uk 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

wellscathedralschool.co.uk SEO score

76

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Wellscathedralschool.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 Wellscathedralschool.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

wellscathedralschool.co.uk

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