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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

contractingplus.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

135 ms

Resources Loaded

499 ms

Page Rendered

982 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Contractingplus.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 135 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

contractingplus.co.uk performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

83/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.141

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.0 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

contractingplus.co.uk

135 ms

www.contractingplus.com

39 ms

css2

40 ms

aos.css

36 ms

main.css

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Contractingplus.co.uk, 61% (22 requests) were made to Contractingplus.com and 11% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (135 ms) belongs to the original domain Contractingplus.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 304.2 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Contractingplus.co.uk main page is 1.4 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 116.4 kB

  • Original 140.0 kB
  • After minification 115.9 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 24.2 kB, which is 17% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 116.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 176.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 964.0 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. Obviously, Contracting Plus needs image optimization as it can save up to 176.2 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 41.5 kB
  • After minification 41.5 kB
  • After compression 37.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 34.3 kB
  • After minification 34.3 kB
  • After compression 26.3 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. Contractingplus.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.1 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (28%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Contracting Plus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

contractingplus.co.uk

contractingplus.co.uk

135 ms

www.contractingplus.com

www.contractingplus.com

39 ms

css2

css2

40 ms

aos.css

aos.css

36 ms

main.css

main.css

9 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

17 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

31 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

87 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

26 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

121 ms

logo.png

logo.png

47 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

64 ms

v2.zopim.com

v2.zopim.com

68 ms

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New-to-Contracting-1.png

18 ms

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New-to-Contracting-2-1.png

18 ms

New-to-Contracting-3-1.png

New-to-Contracting-3-1.png

106 ms

Umbrella-PAYE-4.png

Umbrella-PAYE-4.png

25 ms

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Umbrella-PAYE-2-1.png

24 ms

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Umbrella-PAYE-3-1.png

112 ms

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Personal-Limited-Company-1.png

26 ms

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Personal-Limited-Company-2-1.png

27 ms

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Personal-Limited-Company-3-1.png

34 ms

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Freelancers-2-3.png

34 ms

Freelancers-3-1.png

Freelancers-3-1.png

33 ms

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Switching-Accountant.png

34 ms

Switching-Accountant-2.png

Switching-Accountant-2.png

54 ms

New-to-Contracting-4.png

New-to-Contracting-4.png

53 ms

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google-play.png

52 ms

app-store.png

app-store.png

51 ms

nsai-certified-2023.png

nsai-certified-2023.png

54 ms

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54 ms

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asset_composer.js

41 ms

insight_tag_errors.gif

insight_tag_errors.gif

40 ms

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j8_r6-DH1bjoc-dwu-k.woff

13 ms

Accessibility Review

contractingplus.co.uk accessibility score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

contractingplus.co.uk best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

contractingplus.co.uk SEO score

84

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

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

    UTF-8

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

contractingplus.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Contracting Plus. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: