Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

apprenticeships.org.uk

Further and higher education, skills and vocational training - GOV.UK

Page Load Speed

22.7 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

13 sec

Page Rendered

8.7 sec

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About Website

Welcome to apprenticeships.org.uk homepage info - get ready to check Apprenticeships best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about apprenticeships.org.uk

University and college qualifications. Apprenticeships, traineeships and internships. Funding for further education providers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apprenticeships.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 21.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apprenticeships.org.uk performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

85/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.578

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apprenticeships

1077 ms

apprenticeships

127 ms

apprenticeships-traineeships-and-internships

630 ms

govuk-template-2775f99eaec64ff8121bfbfb3eb67b0c2b4b7c3fc78d25da30e12db2a09d30d6.css

1620 ms

fonts-5ff8c53913434afd0072a480d7cfca67cace4c8d03f6ef96b78a4455728ce745.css

2413 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Apprenticeships.org.uk, 12% (3 requests) were made to Www.gov.uk and 8% (2 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Assets.publishing.service.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 746.8 kB (54%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

630.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Apprenticeships.org.uk main page is 1.4 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. CSS take 827.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 60.8 kB

  • Original 72.3 kB
  • After minification 68.2 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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 60.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 21.2 kB
  • After minification 17.9 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. Obviously, Apprenticeships needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.4 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 300.3 kB

  • Original 456.5 kB
  • After minification 455.9 kB
  • After compression 156.2 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 300.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 382.4 kB

  • Original 827.0 kB
  • After minification 824.3 kB
  • After compression 444.6 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. Apprenticeships.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 382.4 kB or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (50%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apprenticeships. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

apprenticeships.org.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

apprenticeships.org.uk 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

SEO Factors

apprenticeships.org.uk SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Apprenticeships.org.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 Apprenticeships.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 Apprenticeships. 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: