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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

uk-fire.net

National Firefighters & Control Forum for the UK Fire Service

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

360 ms

Resources Loaded

747 ms

Page Rendered

101 ms

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About Website

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The No.1 National Discussion Forum for the UK Fire Service - Forum has open discussions about issues revolving around the UK Fire Service. Formerly 30k Firepay.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uk-fire.net page load time and found that the first response time was 360 ms and then it took 848 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uk-fire.net performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

uk-fire.net

360 ms

ukflogo.gif

389 ms

ga.js

32 ms

__utm.gif

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Uk-fire.net, 50% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (389 ms) belongs to the original domain Uk-fire.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 kB (6%)

Content Size

19.4 kB

After Optimization

18.2 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Uk-fire.net main page is 19.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 17.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 2.3 kB
  • After minification 2.2 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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 1.2 kB or 55% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UK Fire. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

uk-fire.net

uk-fire.net

360 ms

ukflogo.gif

ukflogo.gif

389 ms

ga.js

ga.js

32 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

24 ms

Accessibility Review

uk-fire.net accessibility score

50

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

uk-fire.net best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

uk-fire.net SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Uk-fire.net 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 Uk-fire.net main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

uk-fire.net

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