Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

digital.catapult.org.uk

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Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Digital.catapult.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

digital.catapult.org.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

digital.catapult.org.uk

159 ms

www.digicatapult.org.uk

64 ms

www.digicatapult.org.uk

379 ms

style.min.css

18 ms

swiper.min.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Digital.catapult.org.uk, 83% (40 requests) were made to Digicatapult.org.uk and 6% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (379 ms) relates to the external source Digicatapult.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 87.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Digital.catapult.org.uk main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 932.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 71.2 kB

  • Original 89.8 kB
  • After minification 89.8 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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 71.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 932.4 kB
  • After minification 917.1 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. Digital Catapult images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 378 B

  • Original 147.7 kB
  • After minification 147.7 kB
  • After compression 147.3 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 193 B

  • Original 109.3 kB
  • After minification 109.3 kB
  • After compression 109.1 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. Digital.catapult.org.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (44%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Digital Catapult. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

digital.catapult.org.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

digital.catapult.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

digital.catapult.org.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 Digital.catapult.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 Digital.catapult.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 data is detected on the main page of Digital Catapult. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: