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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

canalpost.uk

Canalpost UK virtual mailbox & addresses with forwarding & mail scanning for canal boaters.

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

335 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

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About Website

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

Canalpost provides virtual postal addresses, mailboxes, scan to email and mail forwarding for boaters of no fixed abode on the canals and rivers in the UK and Ireland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Canalpost.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 335 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

canalpost.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,210 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.161

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

canalpost.uk

335 ms

canalpost.uk

355 ms

style.css

94 ms

css

33 ms

jquery.1.11.0.js

257 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Canalpost.uk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (765 ms) belongs to the original domain Canalpost.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 144.3 kB (16%)

Content Size

874.7 kB

After Optimization

730.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Canalpost.uk main page is 874.7 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. Images take 703.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 21.3 kB
  • After minification 20.8 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 14.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 41.5 kB

  • Original 703.0 kB
  • After minification 661.5 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. Canalpost images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 70.0 kB

  • Original 128.9 kB
  • After minification 127.6 kB
  • After compression 58.9 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 70.0 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 21.5 kB
  • After minification 10.1 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. Canalpost.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Canalpost. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

canalpost.uk

canalpost.uk

335 ms

canalpost.uk

canalpost.uk

355 ms

style.css

style.css

94 ms

css

css

33 ms

jquery.1.11.0.js

jquery.1.11.0.js

257 ms

site.js

site.js

233 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

148 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

356 ms

menu.svg

menu.svg

205 ms

expost-logo-2x.png

expost-logo-2x.png

206 ms

flag.jpg

flag.jpg

416 ms

banner_expats.jpg

banner_expats.jpg

352 ms

banner_addresses.jpg

banner_addresses.jpg

511 ms

swansea.png

swansea.png

387 ms

telford.png

telford.png

391 ms

taunton.png

taunton.png

402 ms

ireland.png

ireland.png

472 ms

stneots.png

stneots.png

464 ms

scotland.png

scotland.png

446 ms

south.png

south.png

473 ms

coast.png

coast.png

467 ms

north.png

north.png

522 ms

yorkshire.png

yorkshire.png

529 ms

northeast.png

northeast.png

530 ms

blank.png

blank.png

543 ms

mooring.jpg

mooring.jpg

710 ms

banner_postoffice.jpg

banner_postoffice.jpg

640 ms

banner_coins.jpg

banner_coins.jpg

675 ms

banner_support.jpg

banner_support.jpg

608 ms

flag.jpg

flag.jpg

765 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

622 ms

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S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWw.ttf

175 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHA.ttf

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHA.ttf

176 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

Accessibility Review

canalpost.uk accessibility score

79

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

canalpost.uk 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

canalpost.uk SEO score

83

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Canalpost.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 Canalpost.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

canalpost.uk

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