Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

pifonline.org.uk

The Patient Information Forum (PIF) | Patient Information Forum

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

449 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

230 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing PIF Online content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about pifonline.org.uk

The Patient Information Forum (PIF) is the leading UK membership organisation for people working in health information, patient information & health literacy.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pifonline.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 449 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pifonline.org.uk performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

75/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,400 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.pifonline.org.uk

449 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

253 ms

thickbox.css

175 ms

wpsc-default.css

259 ms

compatibility.css

171 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Pifonline.org.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Wd-edge.sharethis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to T.sharethis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Pifonline.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 576.1 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

592.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Pifonline.org.uk main page is 1.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 504.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 53.6 kB

  • Original 67.4 kB
  • After minification 57.1 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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 10.3 kB, which is 15% 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 53.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 36.1 kB

  • Original 455.6 kB
  • After minification 419.4 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. PIF Online images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 368.6 kB

  • Original 504.3 kB
  • After minification 454.6 kB
  • After compression 135.8 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 368.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 117.8 kB

  • Original 141.0 kB
  • After minification 110.4 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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. Pifonline.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 117.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (48%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PIF Online. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pifonline.org.uk accessibility score

75

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

pifonline.org.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pifonline.org.uk SEO score

92

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pifonline.org.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Pifonline.org.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 PIF Online. 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: