Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

buchananadvice.co.uk

Home - Buchanan & Associates Financial Planning Ltd

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

402 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

3.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buchananadvice.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 402 ms and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buchananadvice.co.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value27,740 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.092

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buchananadvice.co.uk

402 ms

w4ap.css

348 ms

css

45 ms

jquery.js

1136 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

465 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Buchananadvice.co.uk, 38% (36 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Buchananadvice.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 155.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Buchananadvice.co.uk main page is 1.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 116.9 kB

  • Original 147.0 kB
  • After minification 146.1 kB
  • After compression 30.0 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 116.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.0 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. Buchanan Advice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 19.1 kB

  • Original 100.6 kB
  • After minification 100.5 kB
  • After compression 81.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 19.1 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 167 B

  • Original 7.0 kB
  • After minification 7.0 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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. Buchananadvice.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (49%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Buchanan Advice. 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.

Accessibility Review

buchananadvice.co.uk 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

buchananadvice.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

buchananadvice.co.uk SEO score

85

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

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