Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

costcare.co.uk

Cost Care Tax – R&D Tax Credit and Capital Allowances Specialists – Trusted R&D Tax Relief and Capital Allowances services since 1995

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

120 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

382 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Costcare.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 120 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

costcare.co.uk performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.117

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.costcare.co.uk

120 ms

css2

101 ms

styles.css

316 ms

style.css

319 ms

wpcf7-redirect-frontend.min.css

322 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Costcare.co.uk, 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Costcare.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 119.7 kB (25%)

Content Size

474.7 kB

After Optimization

355.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Costcare.co.uk main page is 474.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 325.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 71.1 kB

  • Original 86.8 kB
  • After minification 77.7 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 71.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 34.0 kB

  • Original 325.1 kB
  • After minification 325.1 kB
  • After compression 291.1 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 14.6 kB

  • Original 62.9 kB
  • After minification 62.8 kB
  • After compression 48.3 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. Costcare.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.6 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (82%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cost Care. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

costcare.co.uk accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

costcare.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

SEO Factors

costcare.co.uk SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Costcare.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 Costcare.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 description is not detected on the main page of Cost Care. 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: