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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

ambulance-life.co.uk

National Newspaper, Ambulance Life, Reflecting Life in and out of the Force

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

220 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

122 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Ambulance Life content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ambulance-life.co.uk

Ambulance Life is a national newspaper for the Ambulance Service which provides a mixture of news from around the UK combined with features on topics away from the job.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ambulance-life.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 220 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ambulance-life.co.uk performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ambulance-life.co.uk

220 ms

www.ambulance-life.co.uk

186 ms

analytics.js

7 ms

import.css

83 ms

pt.js

438 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Ambulance-life.co.uk, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to A1webstats.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (438 ms) relates to the external source A1webstats.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.3 kB (6%)

Content Size

323.3 kB

After Optimization

304.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ambulance-life.co.uk main page is 323.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 205.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 12.4 kB
  • After minification 11.6 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 8.2 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 205.0 kB
  • After minification 202.5 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. Ambulance Life images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 315 B

  • Original 95.4 kB
  • After minification 95.4 kB
  • After compression 95.1 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.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 10.5 kB
  • After minification 7.1 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Ambulance-life.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (29%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ambulance Life. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ambulance-life.co.uk

ambulance-life.co.uk

220 ms

www.ambulance-life.co.uk

www.ambulance-life.co.uk

186 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

7 ms

import.css

import.css

83 ms

pt.js

pt.js

438 ms

collect

collect

28 ms

19104.js

19104.js

49 ms

js

js

62 ms

al.css

al.css

82 ms

dc17f4ac4ca93177a55853f5b.js

dc17f4ac4ca93177a55853f5b.js

51 ms

ambulance-life.jpg

ambulance-life.jpg

246 ms

1.gif

1.gif

167 ms

3.jpg

3.jpg

247 ms

4.gif

4.gif

414 ms

5.jpg

5.jpg

335 ms

footer.jpg

footer.jpg

173 ms

embed.js

embed.js

11 ms

pt.js

pt.js

365 ms

Accessibility Review

ambulance-life.co.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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ambulance-life.co.uk best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ambulance-life.co.uk SEO score

62

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Ambulance-life.co.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 Ambulance-life.co.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

ambulance-life.co.uk

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