Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

melodycare.co.uk

Melody Care | Care at home services | Hampshire & Surrey

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

246 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

260 ms

melodycare.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit melodycare.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Melody Care content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about melodycare.co.uk

Melody Care is a leading provider of care at home, home help and support, allowing your loved one to remain independent in their own home.

Visit melodycare.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Melodycare.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 246 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

melodycare.co.uk performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value500 ms

58/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

melodycare.co.uk

246 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

399 ms

scripts.js

158 ms

styles.css

244 ms

475 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Melodycare.co.uk, 23% (7 requests) were made to Mostrecommendedhomecare.co.uk and 6% (2 requests) were made to A1webstats.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Workingfeedback.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 184.2 kB (34%)

Content Size

542.6 kB

After Optimization

358.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Melodycare.co.uk main page is 542.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 338.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 16.2 kB
  • After minification 15.3 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 9.3 kB or 58% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 49.7 kB

  • Original 338.2 kB
  • After minification 288.5 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. Obviously, Melody Care needs image optimization as it can save up to 49.7 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 62.0 kB

  • Original 113.4 kB
  • After minification 113.4 kB
  • After compression 51.4 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 62.0 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 63.1 kB

  • Original 74.7 kB
  • After minification 61.1 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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. Melodycare.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 63.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (11%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Melody Care. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

melodycare.co.uk accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

melodycare.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

melodycare.co.uk SEO score

96

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Melodycare.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Melodycare.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Melody Care. 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: