Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

rcot.co.uk

Royal College of Occupational Therapists - Home

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

302 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

rcot.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit rcot.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Rcot content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about rcot.co.uk

We’re RCOT, the Royal College of Occupational Therapists. We champion occupational therapy. We’re here to help achieve life-changing breakthroughs – for our members, for the people they support and fo...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rcot.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 302 ms and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rcot.co.uk performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rcot.co.uk

302 ms

www.rcot.co.uk

218 ms

www.rcot.co.uk

407 ms

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72 ms

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139 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Rcot.co.uk, 12% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Rcot.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 738.7 kB (66%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

384.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Rcot.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 530.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 173.7 kB

  • Original 216.8 kB
  • After minification 216.0 kB
  • After compression 43.1 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 173.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 178.3 kB
  • After minification 174.6 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. Rcot images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 98.5 kB

  • Original 197.1 kB
  • After minification 190.2 kB
  • After compression 98.6 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 98.5 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 462.8 kB

  • Original 530.8 kB
  • After minification 530.0 kB
  • After compression 67.9 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. Rcot.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 462.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (63%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rcot. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rcot.co.uk accessibility score

87

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

[lang] attributes do not have a valid value

Best Practices

rcot.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

rcot.co.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Rcot.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 Rcot.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 Rcot. 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: