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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

yorkhospitals.nhs.uk

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Home

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

559 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

272 ms

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About Website

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The official website of York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Call our Switchboard on (01904) 631313.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Yorkhospitals.nhs.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 559 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

yorkhospitals.nhs.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.089

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.yorkhospitals.nhs.uk

559 ms

default.min.css

228 ms

font-awesome.min.css

318 ms

fontawesome.min.css

397 ms

accessible-slick.min.css

255 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Yorkhospitals.nhs.uk, 7% (4 requests) were made to Browsealoud.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (802 ms) belongs to the original domain Yorkhospitals.nhs.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 420.5 kB (19%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Yorkhospitals.nhs.uk main page is 2.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 24.5 kB
  • After minification 23.6 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 18.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 91.2 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. York Hospitals images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 200.6 kB

  • Original 332.5 kB
  • After minification 320.6 kB
  • After compression 131.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 200.6 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 110.7 kB

  • Original 141.7 kB
  • After minification 140.1 kB
  • After compression 31.0 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. Yorkhospitals.nhs.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 110.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (53%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of York Hospitals. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.yorkhospitals.nhs.uk

www.yorkhospitals.nhs.uk

559 ms

default.min.css

default.min.css

228 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

318 ms

fontawesome.min.css

fontawesome.min.css

397 ms

accessible-slick.min.css

accessible-slick.min.css

255 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

260 ms

jquery.fancybox-buttons.css

jquery.fancybox-buttons.css

266 ms

jquery.fancybox-thumbs.css

jquery.fancybox-thumbs.css

303 ms

jquery-1.12.2.min.js

jquery-1.12.2.min.js

483 ms

tinymce.min.js

tinymce.min.js

802 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

417 ms

jquery.fancybox-buttons.js

jquery.fancybox-buttons.js

380 ms

jquery.fancybox-media.js

jquery.fancybox-media.js

393 ms

jquery.fancybox-thumbs.js

jquery.fancybox-thumbs.js

457 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

469 ms

accessible-slick.min.js

accessible-slick.min.js

470 ms

jquery.selectBoxIt.js

jquery.selectBoxIt.js

493 ms

jquery.matchHeight.min.js

jquery.matchHeight.min.js

533 ms

jquery.tinysort.js

jquery.tinysort.js

544 ms

jquery.sticky.js

jquery.sticky.js

546 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

558 ms

moment.min.js

moment.min.js

645 ms

js.min.js

js.min.js

610 ms

seecmsgallery.min.js

seecmsgallery.min.js

619 ms

js

js

61 ms

widget.js

widget.js

24 ms

element.js

element.js

47 ms

ba.js

ba.js

24 ms

trust-logo.png

trust-logo.png

386 ms

search-icon.png

search-icon.png

89 ms

img-2-9315.png

img-2-9315.png

232 ms

img-2-9478.jpg

img-2-9478.jpg

233 ms

img-2-8656.png

img-2-8656.png

537 ms

hometop-back-top.gif

hometop-back-top.gif

88 ms

img-1-9854.jpg

img-1-9854.jpg

156 ms

img-1-9446.jpg

img-1-9446.jpg

156 ms

li.gif

li.gif

233 ms

hometop-back-bot.gif

hometop-back-bot.gif

234 ms

cutout2.png

cutout2.png

310 ms

img-3-6586.jpg

img-3-6586.jpg

311 ms

china.gif

china.gif

266 ms

poland.gif

poland.gif

266 ms

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306 ms

staff-benefits.jpg

staff-benefits.jpg

309 ms

hyms.jpg

hyms.jpg

308 ms

yandslogo.jpg

yandslogo.jpg

312 ms

version.json

version.json

59 ms

www.yorkhospitals.nhs.uk.js

www.yorkhospitals.nhs.uk.js

13 ms

our-hospitals.gif

our-hospitals.gif

311 ms

fancybox_overlay.png

fancybox_overlay.png

315 ms

ab1bcdf7-9570-4cba-a8e3-3e39ddd861db.woff

ab1bcdf7-9570-4cba-a8e3-3e39ddd861db.woff

313 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

391 ms

sri.json

sri.json

2 ms

browsealoud.js

browsealoud.js

3 ms

fancybox_sprite.png

fancybox_sprite.png

79 ms

Accessibility Review

yorkhospitals.nhs.uk accessibility score

92

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.

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

yorkhospitals.nhs.uk best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

yorkhospitals.nhs.uk 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 Yorkhospitals.nhs.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 Yorkhospitals.nhs.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

yorkhospitals.nhs.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of York Hospitals. 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: