Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

fosterline.info

Supporting Foster Carers and those that want to Foster | Fosterline

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

472 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

863 ms

fosterline.info screenshot

About Website

Visit fosterline.info now to see the best up-to-date Fosterline content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about fosterline.info

Fosterline is a free, confidential and impartial support service for foster carers and those thinking of fostering.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fosterline.info page load time and found that the first response time was 472 ms and then it took 3.8 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

fosterline.info performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,050 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.fosterline.info

472 ms

jquery.min.js

192 ms

dom-ready.min.js

253 ms

hooks.min.js

253 ms

i18n.min.js

256 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Fosterline.info, 8% (6 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (954 ms) belongs to the original domain Fosterline.info.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 102.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Fosterline.info main page is 1.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 74.8 kB

  • Original 95.3 kB
  • After minification 88.2 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 74.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Fosterline images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 272 B

  • Original 303.9 kB
  • After minification 303.9 kB
  • After compression 303.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 140.1 kB
  • After minification 140.1 kB
  • After compression 135.9 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. Fosterline.info has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (66%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fosterline. 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 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fosterline.info accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

fosterline.info 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

SEO Factors

fosterline.info SEO score

82

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

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 Fosterline.info 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 Fosterline.info 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 Fosterline. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: