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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    28% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

sofst.org

Creative Textile Courses | School of Stitched Textiles

Page Load Speed

10.9 sec in total

First Response

297 ms

Resources Loaded

9.7 sec

Page Rendered

887 ms

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About Website

Visit sofst.org now to see the best up-to-date Sofst content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sofst.org

The UK's largest distance learning provider of accredited needlework and textile courses. Unlock your creative potential!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sofst.org page load time and found that the first response time was 297 ms and then it took 10.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sofst.org performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value35.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,690 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value59.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sofst.org

297 ms

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2787 ms

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302 ms

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538 ms

Our browser made a total of 168 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (144 requests) were addressed to the original Sofst.org, 5% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Sofst.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (11%)

Content Size

16.3 MB

After Optimization

14.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sofst.org main page is 16.3 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 14.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 202.4 kB

  • Original 238.9 kB
  • After minification 227.7 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 202.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 222.2 kB

  • Original 14.3 MB
  • After minification 14.1 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. Sofst images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 313.8 kB

  • Original 462.0 kB
  • After minification 427.1 kB
  • After compression 148.2 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 313.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 172.8 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. Sofst.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 89 (58%)

Requests Now

154

After Optimization

65

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 154 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sofst. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 57 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 34 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

sofst.org accessibility score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

sofst.org 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

sofst.org SEO score

83

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

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 Sofst.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 Sofst.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

sofst.org

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