Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

aliensoftware.co.uk

Alien Software – Powerful creations for growth.

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

142 ms

aliensoftware.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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

Alien Software provide custom software and web development services to clients across the UK and worldwide. We also develop free software.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aliensoftware.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aliensoftware.co.uk performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aliensoftware.co.uk

2237 ms

software-style.css

93 ms

NewLogo.gif

271 ms

corner_left.gif

270 ms

flag_uk.gif

271 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Aliensoftware.co.uk, 16% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 13% (4 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Aliensoftware.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 21.6 kB (44%)

Content Size

48.9 kB

After Optimization

27.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Aliensoftware.co.uk main page is 48.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 30.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 12.3 kB
  • After minification 12.0 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 9.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 18 B

  • Original 2.8 kB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Alien Software images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 30.7 kB
  • After minification 30.5 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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 9.9 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 2.7 kB
  • After compression 525 B

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. Aliensoftware.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (64%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alien Software. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

aliensoftware.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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

aliensoftware.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

aliensoftware.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Aliensoftware.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 Aliensoftware.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 Alien Software. 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: