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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

samaritans.org

Samaritans | Every life lost to suicide is a tragedy | Here to listen

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

248 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

271 ms

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About Website

Visit samaritans.org now to see the best up-to-date Samaritans content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about samaritans.org

Samaritans works to make sure there’s always someone there for anyone who needs someone. Read more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Samaritans.org page load time and found that the first response time was 248 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

samaritans.org performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.225

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.samaritans.org

248 ms

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163 ms

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162 ms

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167 ms

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243 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Samaritans.org, 8% (5 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Samaritans.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (40%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Samaritans.org main page is 2.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 159.6 kB

  • Original 210.2 kB
  • After minification 206.9 kB
  • After compression 50.6 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 159.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 35.3 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Samaritans images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 764.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 377.2 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 764.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 143.3 kB

  • Original 169.8 kB
  • After minification 167.3 kB
  • After compression 26.5 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. Samaritans.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 143.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (36%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Samaritans. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.samaritans.org

www.samaritans.org

248 ms

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163 ms

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162 ms

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167 ms

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243 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

171 ms

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288 ms

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239 ms

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241 ms

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324 ms

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255 ms

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94 ms

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97 ms

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98 ms

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478 ms

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479 ms

gtm.js

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69 ms

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482 ms

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503 ms

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504 ms

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545 ms

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562 ms

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583 ms

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641 ms

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662 ms

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711 ms

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72 ms

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25 ms

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658 ms

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13 ms

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55 ms

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Accessibility Review

samaritans.org 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.

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

samaritans.org best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

samaritans.org SEO score

93

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Samaritans.org 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 Samaritans.org 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

samaritans.org

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