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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

jobs.stepchange.org

Jobs at StepChange. Apply online. StepChange Debt Charity.

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

204 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

382 ms

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About Website

Visit jobs.stepchange.org now to see the best up-to-date Jobs Step Change content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about jobs.stepchange.org

Jobs & careers at StepChange. We pride ourselves on employing dedicated, skilled staff to offer debt advice & debt management to help people get debt free.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Jobs.stepchange.org page load time and found that the first response time was 204 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

jobs.stepchange.org performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,000 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

jobs.stepchange.org

204 ms

jobs.stepchange.org

360 ms

home.html

3 ms

home.html

150 ms

reset.css

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Jobs.stepchange.org, 12% (8 requests) were made to Fast.wistia.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Stepchange.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) relates to the external source Stepchange.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 158.2 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Jobs.stepchange.org main page is 1.8 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 21.2 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 14.4 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 141.8 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Jobs Step Change images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 310.5 kB
  • After minification 310.5 kB
  • After compression 310.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 27.2 kB
  • After minification 27.2 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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. Jobs.stepchange.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (81%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Jobs Step Change. 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 from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

jobs.stepchange.org

jobs.stepchange.org

204 ms

jobs.stepchange.org

jobs.stepchange.org

360 ms

home.html

home.html

3 ms

home.html

home.html

150 ms

reset.css

reset.css

95 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

97 ms

local.js

local.js

413 ms

ext-all.css

ext-all.css

422 ms

ext-base.js

ext-base.js

432 ms

ext-all.js

ext-all.js

580 ms

convertForm.js

convertForm.js

431 ms

monthpicker.js

monthpicker.js

194 ms

FileUploadField.js

FileUploadField.js

286 ms

Ext.ux.form.LovCombo.css

Ext.ux.form.LovCombo.css

374 ms

Ext.ux.form.LovCombo.js

Ext.ux.form.LovCombo.js

465 ms

ext-lang-en.js

ext-lang-en.js

503 ms

site.css

site.css

508 ms

icams-specific.css

icams-specific.css

512 ms

738phewu54.jsonp

738phewu54.jsonp

94 ms

E-v1.js

E-v1.js

132 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

66 ms

bgtop.gif

bgtop.gif

349 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

144 ms

semi-transparent.gif

semi-transparent.gif

264 ms

left.gif

left.gif

265 ms

middle.gif

middle.gif

265 ms

right.gif

right.gif

267 ms

hireserve.gif

hireserve.gif

268 ms

icamslogo.gif

icamslogo.gif

345 ms

menu_in.gif

menu_in.gif

345 ms

menu_out.gif

menu_out.gif

345 ms

collapse.gif

collapse.gif

346 ms

expand.gif

expand.gif

368 ms

navigation_blue_first.gif

navigation_blue_first.gif

378 ms

navigation_blue_previous.gif

navigation_blue_previous.gif

378 ms

navigation_blue_next.gif

navigation_blue_next.gif

619 ms

navigation_blue_last.gif

navigation_blue_last.gif

423 ms

navigation_blue_first.gif

navigation_blue_first.gif

442 ms

navigation_blue_previous.gif

navigation_blue_previous.gif

443 ms

navigation_blue_next.gif

navigation_blue_next.gif

487 ms

navigation_blue_last.gif

navigation_blue_last.gif

487 ms

upsimple.gif

upsimple.gif

503 ms

excel2003_16.gif

excel2003_16.gif

748 ms

trash_in.gif

trash_in.gif

532 ms

window_edit.gif

window_edit.gif

552 ms

report_document_1.gif

report_document_1.gif

554 ms

report_document_2.gif

report_document_2.gif

593 ms

report_document_1.gif

report_document_1.gif

627 ms

clipboard.gif

clipboard.gif

641 ms

group_business_1.gif

group_business_1.gif

633 ms

home_clip.gif

home_clip.gif

676 ms

symbol_restricted.gif

symbol_restricted.gif

693 ms

symbol_secured.gif

symbol_secured.gif

677 ms

history.gif

history.gif

650 ms

tiny_red.gif

tiny_red.gif

646 ms

gradient.jpg

gradient.jpg

472 ms

swatch

swatch

43 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

560 ms

logo-std.png

logo-std.png

600 ms

living-wage-employer-transparent.png

living-wage-employer-transparent.png

3485 ms

4697-2360.jpg

4697-2360.jpg

642 ms

logo-std-footer.png

logo-std-footer.png

569 ms

Corbel.woff

Corbel.woff

571 ms

externalPlayer.js

externalPlayer.js

29 ms

share-v2.js

share-v2.js

7 ms

customerLogo.js

customerLogo.js

33 ms

captions.js

captions.js

33 ms

postRoll-v2.js

postRoll-v2.js

8 ms

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ad4c0b8d95b5e9c2ab8d8da3e3794763.jpg

274 ms

Accessibility Review

jobs.stepchange.org accessibility score

96

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

jobs.stepchange.org best practices score

42

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

jobs.stepchange.org SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Jobs.stepchange.org 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 Jobs.stepchange.org 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

jobs.stepchange.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Jobs Step Change. 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: