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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    82% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

contractingplus.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

258 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

contractingplus.co.uk screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Contractingplus.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 258 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

contractingplus.co.uk performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value19,820 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.356

30/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

contractingplus.co.uk

258 ms

www.contractingplus.com

786 ms

main.css

49 ms

style.min.css

122 ms

js

571 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Contractingplus.co.uk, 47% (27 requests) were made to Contractingplus.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to F.vimeocdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (988 ms) relates to the external source In.hotjar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 93.5 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Contractingplus.co.uk main page is 1.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 46.5 kB

  • Original 58.7 kB
  • After minification 53.2 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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 46.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

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. Contracting Plus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 872 B

  • Original 43.3 kB
  • After minification 43.3 kB
  • After compression 42.4 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 56.0 kB
  • After minification 56.0 kB
  • After compression 51.1 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. Contractingplus.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (35%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 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 15 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

258 ms

www.contractingplus.com

www.contractingplus.com

786 ms

main.css

main.css

49 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

122 ms

js

js

571 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

169 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

185 ms

vendor.min.js

vendor.min.js

160 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

545 ms

css

css

148 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

308 ms

hotjar-2064013.js

hotjar-2064013.js

507 ms

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301903434

645 ms

logo-anniversary.jpg

logo-anniversary.jpg

472 ms

dropdown.svg

dropdown.svg

458 ms

homepage.png

homepage.png

531 ms

new-to-contracting-thumb-720x536.jpg

new-to-contracting-thumb-720x536.jpg

481 ms

icon-link-arrow.svg

icon-link-arrow.svg

479 ms

existing-contractor-1.png

existing-contractor-1.png

567 ms

Freelancer-Images-11-720x405.png

Freelancer-Images-11-720x405.png

671 ms

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not-ready-to-retire-thumb-720x478.jpg

572 ms

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565 ms

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564 ms

icon-signup.svg

icon-signup.svg

602 ms

testimonial-arrow-right.svg

testimonial-arrow-right.svg

606 ms

testimonial-arrow-left.svg

testimonial-arrow-left.svg

597 ms

icon-cash.svg

icon-cash.svg

598 ms

icon-notification.svg

icon-notification.svg

623 ms

icon-secure.svg

icon-secure.svg

662 ms

icon-vip.svg

icon-vip.svg

649 ms

feature-5.svg

feature-5.svg

654 ms

cerification-logo.png

cerification-logo.png

645 ms

logo-app-store.png

logo-app-store.png

659 ms

logo-google-play.png

logo-google-play.png

846 ms

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433 ms

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663 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

516 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

224 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

264 ms

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modules.cbd9768ba80ba0be5b17.js

218 ms

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351 ms

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469 ms

player.js

player.js

607 ms

player.css

player.css

534 ms

vuid.min.js

vuid.min.js

468 ms

collect

collect

211 ms

asset_composer.js

asset_composer.js

495 ms

367 ms

collect

collect

836 ms

visit-data

visit-data

988 ms

577 ms

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651 ms

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520 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

68 ms

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widget_v2.334.js

28 ms

128 ms

Accessibility Review

contractingplus.co.uk accessibility score

92

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

contractingplus.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

contractingplus.co.uk SEO score

89

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

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: