Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

cashconverters.co.uk

Buy & Sell Second-hand Goods | Pawnbroking | Cash Converters

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

483 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

179 ms

cashconverters.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to cashconverters.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Cash Converters best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about cashconverters.co.uk

The UK’s favourite place to buy and sell second-hand goods or get a loan against your items of value with our pawnbroking and buyback services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cashconverters.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 483 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cashconverters.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,760 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.033

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.cashconverters.co.uk

483 ms

style.css

168 ms

jquery.min.js

30 ms

modernizr-2.0.6.min.js

156 ms

jquery.js

239 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Cashconverters.co.uk, 9% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (483 ms) belongs to the original domain Cashconverters.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 288.4 kB (49%)

Content Size

591.3 kB

After Optimization

302.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Cashconverters.co.uk main page is 591.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 273.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 35.9 kB

  • Original 44.7 kB
  • After minification 32.9 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.7 kB, which is 26% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 35.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 17.8 kB

  • Original 185.8 kB
  • After minification 168.0 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. Cash Converters images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 161.9 kB

  • Original 273.3 kB
  • After minification 253.6 kB
  • After compression 111.5 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 161.9 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 72.8 kB

  • Original 87.5 kB
  • After minification 78.2 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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. Cashconverters.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 72.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (48%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cash Converters. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cashconverters.co.uk accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

cashconverters.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cashconverters.co.uk SEO score

91

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

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 Cashconverters.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 Cashconverters.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 Cash Converters. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: