Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

bud.co.uk

Bud: Apprenticeship Management Software - Training & Delivery

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

483 ms

bud.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Bud content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bud.co.uk

Bud Apprenticeship Management Software, seamlessly combines applicant management, programme creation, e-portfolio, workforce & learner reporting.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bud.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bud.co.uk performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,050 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bud.co.uk

1052 ms

main.css

33 ms

module_70260220665_top-banner.min.css

47 ms

module_55505007053_menu-section.css

73 ms

module_55495764176_button.min.css

137 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Bud.co.uk, 2% (2 requests) were made to Static.hsappstatic.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Bud.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 188.0 kB (28%)

Content Size

662.8 kB

After Optimization

474.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Bud.co.uk main page is 662.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 388.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 105.0 kB

  • Original 124.0 kB
  • After minification 112.5 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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 105.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 61.4 kB

  • Original 388.9 kB
  • After minification 327.6 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, Bud needs image optimization as it can save up to 61.4 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 107.6 kB
  • After minification 107.6 kB
  • After compression 100.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 42.3 kB
  • After minification 42.3 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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. Bud.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.3 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (49%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bud. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bud.co.uk accessibility score

97

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

bud.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bud.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Bud.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 Bud.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Bud. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: