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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

financialadvice.net

Our 25th year of online, award winning, independent financial advice : Home : financialadvice.net

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

270 ms

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

599 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Financialadvice.net page load time and found that the first response time was 270 ms and then it took 7.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

financialadvice.net performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

financialadvice.net

270 ms

www.financialadvice.net

4308 ms

bootstrap-slider.min.css

85 ms

jquery.datetimepicker.min.css

171 ms

font-awesome.min.css

334 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Financialadvice.net, 1% (1 request) were made to Google.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Financialadvice.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.7 MB (57%)

Content Size

6.4 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Financialadvice.net main page is 6.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 132.7 kB

  • Original 152.2 kB
  • After minification 137.7 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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 132.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 183.3 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Obviously, Financial Advice needs image optimization as it can save up to 183.3 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 2.9 MB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.8 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 2.9 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 423.8 kB

  • Original 511.4 kB
  • After minification 502.7 kB
  • After compression 87.6 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. Financialadvice.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 423.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (29%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

58

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Financial Advice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

financialadvice.net

financialadvice.net

270 ms

www.financialadvice.net

www.financialadvice.net

4308 ms

bootstrap-slider.min.css

bootstrap-slider.min.css

85 ms

jquery.datetimepicker.min.css

jquery.datetimepicker.min.css

171 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

334 ms

bootstrap.min.css

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509 ms

mdb.min.css

mdb.min.css

679 ms

datatables.min.css

datatables.min.css

255 ms

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wow_book.css

420 ms

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jquery-3.3.1.min.js

336 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

717 ms

popper.min.js

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413 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

519 ms

bootstrap-slider.min.js

bootstrap-slider.min.js

498 ms

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tinymce.js

1093 ms

jquery.datetimepicker.full.min.js

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660 ms

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838 ms

api.js

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46 ms

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586 ms

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711 ms

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mdb.js

1069 ms

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924 ms

jquery.inputmask.min.js

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842 ms

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1005 ms

wow_book.min.js

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1017 ms

generic.js

generic.js

924 ms

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detect_ad_blocking.js

1016 ms

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background_watermark.png

234 ms

contact_14.jpg

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110 ms

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108 ms

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117 ms

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Doctor%20examining%20elderly%20patient%20uid%201344367.jpg

118 ms

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118 ms

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234 ms

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233 ms

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235 ms

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235 ms

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234 ms

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242 ms

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244 ms

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245 ms

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248 ms

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246 ms

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248 ms

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377 ms

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381 ms

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376 ms

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376 ms

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379 ms

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378 ms

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382 ms

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380 ms

Budget_24_%20State_Pensions.jpg

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384 ms

Budget_24_%20ISA.jpg

Budget_24_%20ISA.jpg

382 ms

Budget_24_%20Pensions_IHT.jpg

Budget_24_%20Pensions_IHT.jpg

384 ms

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383 ms

finance_calculator.jpg

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476 ms

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476 ms

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473 ms

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474 ms

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475 ms

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474 ms

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536 ms

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63 ms

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486 ms

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477 ms

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511 ms

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509 ms

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508 ms

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446 ms

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444 ms

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445 ms

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460 ms

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459 ms

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406 ms

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471 ms

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469 ms

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468 ms

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468 ms

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467 ms

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340 ms

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423 ms

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420 ms

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420 ms

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421 ms

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419 ms

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417 ms

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502 ms

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501 ms

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496 ms

Accessibility Review

financialadvice.net accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

Best Practices

financialadvice.net 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

financialadvice.net SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Financialadvice.net 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 Financialadvice.net 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

financialadvice.net

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