Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

comparestoreprices.co.uk

Compare Store Prices - Independent UK Price Comparison & User Product Reviews

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

641 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

627 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Comparestoreprices.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 641 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

comparestoreprices.co.uk performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.9 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index.asp

641 ms

default.css

303 ms

new-logo.gif

378 ms

rss.gif

156 ms

10881599-1392365022-853705.jpg

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Comparestoreprices.co.uk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to S4.thcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (707 ms) belongs to the original domain Comparestoreprices.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

791.4 kB

After Optimization

694.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Comparestoreprices.co.uk main page is 791.4 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 702.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 59.7 kB

  • Original 76.2 kB
  • After minification 75.6 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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 59.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 26.9 kB

  • Original 702.7 kB
  • After minification 675.8 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. Compare Store Prices images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 12.5 kB
  • After minification 10.5 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Comparestoreprices.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Compare Store Prices. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

comparestoreprices.co.uk accessibility score

58

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

comparestoreprices.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

SEO Factors

comparestoreprices.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

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

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Comparestoreprices.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 Comparestoreprices.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 Compare Store Prices. 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: