Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

charleston.co.uk

Commercial & Residential Mortgage Specialists - Charleston Financial

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

218 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

270 ms

charleston.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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

Charleston are an authorised financial services organisation offering advice on Commercial Mortgages, HMO Mortgages, Buy To Let, Bridging Finance, Secured Loans and Residential Mortgages.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Charleston.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 218 ms and then it took 2.8 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

charleston.co.uk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value860 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

charleston.co.uk

218 ms

www.charleston.co.uk

191 ms

www.charleston.co.uk

965 ms

gtm.js

80 ms

css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Charleston.co.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (965 ms) belongs to the original domain Charleston.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 29.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

490.5 kB

After Optimization

461.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Charleston.co.uk main page is 490.5 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. Images take 381.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 32.2 kB
  • After minification 31.5 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 23.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 381.8 kB
  • After minification 377.0 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. Charleston images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 53.4 kB
  • After minification 53.4 kB
  • After compression 52.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 23.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (53%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Charleston. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

charleston.co.uk accessibility score

86

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

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

charleston.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

charleston.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

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