Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 49

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

cancernet.co.uk

Cancer treatments chemotherapy radiotherapy immunotherapy hormonetherapy lifestyle cancer

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

238 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

181 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Cancer Net content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about cancernet.co.uk

Oncologist produced information about cancer and its treatments, emphasising evidence based lifestyle advice and resources to help cope with adverse effects and reduce the risks of relpase/>

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cancernet.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 238 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cancernet.co.uk performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

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)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cancernet.co.uk

238 ms

www.cancernet.co.uk

3136 ms

tl_brdr2_trans.gif

31 ms

spacer.gif

32 ms

tr_brdr2_trans.gif

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Cancernet.co.uk, 9% (6 requests) were made to Imgssl.constantcontact.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Img.constantcontact.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Cancernet.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 65.6 kB (14%)

Content Size

472.8 kB

After Optimization

407.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Cancernet.co.uk main page is 472.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 419.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 28.1 kB
  • After minification 26.9 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 21.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 37.6 kB

  • Original 419.5 kB
  • After minification 381.9 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. Cancer Net images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 25.2 kB
  • After minification 25.0 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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 6.6 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (35%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cancer Net. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cancernet.co.uk accessibility score

49

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cancernet.co.uk best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

cancernet.co.uk SEO score

58

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

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 Cancernet.co.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 Cancernet.co.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 Cancer Net. 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: