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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

balletwest.co.uk

Ballet West Scotland - School of Classical Ballet, Dance Performance and Professional Stage Dance

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

117 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

374 ms

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About Website

Welcome to balletwest.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Ballet West best content right away, or after learning these important things about balletwest.co.uk

Ballet West School, Scotland. Professional dance training and lessons in Scotland

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balletwest.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 117 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

balletwest.co.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,970 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balletwest.co.uk

117 ms

www.balletwest.co.uk

203 ms

css

21 ms

css

38 ms

base.css

173 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Balletwest.co.uk, 14% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 12% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (719 ms) belongs to the original domain Balletwest.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.0 kB (10%)

Content Size

711.1 kB

After Optimization

640.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Balletwest.co.uk main page is 711.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 426.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 42.1 kB
  • After minification 41.4 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 30.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 33.7 kB

  • Original 426.5 kB
  • After minification 392.8 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. Ballet West images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 167.3 kB
  • After minification 167.3 kB
  • After compression 164.7 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 75.2 kB
  • After minification 75.1 kB
  • After compression 71.1 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. Balletwest.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (55%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ballet West. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

balletwest.co.uk

balletwest.co.uk

117 ms

www.balletwest.co.uk

www.balletwest.co.uk

203 ms

css

css

21 ms

css

css

38 ms

base.css

base.css

173 ms

skeleton.css

skeleton.css

171 ms

layout.css

layout.css

178 ms

typography.css

typography.css

173 ms

responsive-tables.css

responsive-tables.css

183 ms

responsive-tables.js

responsive-tables.js

189 ms

ccm.base.css

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334 ms

jquery.js

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483 ms

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337 ms

autonav_pro_default.css

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340 ms

font-awesome.css

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346 ms

swfobject.js

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351 ms

view.css

view.css

497 ms

tabs.js

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500 ms

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343 ms

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524 ms

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48 ms

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164 ms

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175 ms

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249 ms

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645 ms

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645 ms

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86 ms

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156 ms

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716 ms

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55 ms

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17 ms

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22 ms

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18 ms

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75 ms

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328 ms

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208 ms

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94 ms

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Accessibility Review

balletwest.co.uk accessibility score

60

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

balletwest.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

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

balletwest.co.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Balletwest.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 Balletwest.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

balletwest.co.uk

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