Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

goingforgrants.co.uk

Going For Grants

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

309 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Going For Grants content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about goingforgrants.co.uk

Going For Grants (GFG) exists to advise, search, identify and apply for this unique form of funding along with support for clients

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Key Findings

We analyzed Goingforgrants.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

goingforgrants.co.uk performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

88/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

goingforgrants.co.uk

1171 ms

jquery-1.3.2.js

473 ms

accordion.js

299 ms

banner.js

485 ms

5keyspan.js

593 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Goingforgrants.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Goingforgrants.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 143.2 kB (25%)

Content Size

566.6 kB

After Optimization

423.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Goingforgrants.co.uk main page is 566.6 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 427.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 16.1 kB
  • After minification 15.5 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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 12.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 38.2 kB

  • Original 427.3 kB
  • After minification 389.1 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. Going For Grants images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 81.1 kB

  • Original 108.7 kB
  • After minification 88.4 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 81.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 14.5 kB
  • After minification 10.5 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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. Goingforgrants.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (22%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Going For Grants. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

goingforgrants.co.uk accessibility score

84

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

Best Practices

goingforgrants.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

goingforgrants.co.uk SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Goingforgrants.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 Goingforgrants.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 description is not detected on the main page of Going For Grants. 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: