Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

aica.org.uk

AICA, independent advice on care services and care providers

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

612 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

164 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aica.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 612 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aica.org.uk performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aica.org.uk

612 ms

aica.org.uk

513 ms

hierArrays.asp

232 ms

hierMenus.js

369 ms

logo.jpg

303 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Aica.org.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (673 ms) belongs to the original domain Aica.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 25.7 kB (32%)

Content Size

79.7 kB

After Optimization

54.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Aica.org.uk main page is 79.7 kB. 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 42.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 27.6 kB
  • After minification 26.5 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 23.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 194 B

  • Original 42.4 kB
  • After minification 42.2 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. AICA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 9.7 kB
  • After minification 9.7 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 2.1 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AICA. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

aica.org.uk accessibility score

61

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

Best Practices

aica.org.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

SEO Factors

aica.org.uk SEO score

67

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Aica.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 Aica.org.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

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