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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

essentialsiteskills.co.uk

Construction Training & NVQ Qualification Provider - Essential Site Skills

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

essentialsiteskills.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit essentialsiteskills.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Essential Site Skills content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about essentialsiteskills.co.uk

Essential Site Skills are an Award Winning Health & Safety Course Provider, specialising in the construction industry. We deliver a wide range of CITB courses, health & safety, CPCS courses and NVQs, ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Essentialsiteskills.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

essentialsiteskills.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,700 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.0 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

essentialsiteskills.co.uk

43 ms

essentialsiteskills.co.uk

685 ms

app.css

291 ms

khz3mdv.css

38 ms

js

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Essentialsiteskills.co.uk, 18% (6 requests) were made to Static.olark.com and 15% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (685 ms) belongs to the original domain Essentialsiteskills.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 301.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

8.1 MB

After Optimization

7.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Essentialsiteskills.co.uk main page is 8.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 191.6 kB

  • Original 228.2 kB
  • After minification 227.9 kB
  • After compression 36.5 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 191.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 100.0 kB

  • Original 7.9 MB
  • After minification 7.8 MB

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. Essential Site Skills images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 17.7 kB
  • After minification 17.5 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 10.3 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 10.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (57%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Essential Site Skills. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

essentialsiteskills.co.uk

essentialsiteskills.co.uk

43 ms

essentialsiteskills.co.uk

essentialsiteskills.co.uk

685 ms

app.css

app.css

291 ms

khz3mdv.css

khz3mdv.css

38 ms

js

js

85 ms

klaviyo.js

klaviyo.js

57 ms

framework.js

framework.js

322 ms

manifest.js

manifest.js

324 ms

vendor.js

vendor.js

358 ms

app.js

app.js

340 ms

p.css

p.css

19 ms

api.js

api.js

13 ms

hotjar-3855299.js

hotjar-3855299.js

178 ms

ess-green-skills.svg

ess-green-skills.svg

296 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

298 ms

img_70e401dc69563ea5e87050a13a6d55d9.jpg

img_70e401dc69563ea5e87050a13a6d55d9.jpg

326 ms

homepage%20image%20funding.jpg

homepage%20image%20funding.jpg

337 ms

Vehicle%20Banksman%20smaller.jpg

Vehicle%20Banksman%20smaller.jpg

338 ms

Careers%20in%20Construction%20Homepage%202.jpg

Careers%20in%20Construction%20Homepage%202.jpg

360 ms

Willis.jpg

Willis.jpg

574 ms

loader.js

loader.js

42 ms

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12 ms

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22 ms

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27 ms

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28 ms

app.js

app.js

2 ms

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3 ms

c

c

154 ms

application2.js

application2.js

8 ms

storage.html

storage.html

1 ms

storage.js

storage.js

2 ms

visits

visits

105 ms

s

s

62 ms

s

s

64 ms

Accessibility Review

essentialsiteskills.co.uk accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

essentialsiteskills.co.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

essentialsiteskills.co.uk SEO score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Essentialsiteskills.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 Essentialsiteskills.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

essentialsiteskills.co.uk

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