Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

ghldirect.co.uk

GHL Direct - Mortgage And Insurance Advice - Rated 4.9/5

Page Load Speed

409 ms in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

175 ms

Page Rendered

60 ms

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About Website

Visit ghldirect.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date GHL Direct content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ghldirect.co.uk

At GHL Direct we pride ourselves on offering a first class and stress-free service to our customers when it comes to mortgage, insurance, pension and investment advice.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ghldirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 235 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ghldirect.co.uk performance score

0

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.319

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ghldirect.co.uk

174 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Ghldirect.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (174 ms) belongs to the original domain Ghldirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 30.1 kB (5%)

Content Size

638.8 kB

After Optimization

608.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Ghldirect.co.uk main page is 638.8 kB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 620.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 22 B

  • Original 177 B
  • After minification 177 B
  • After compression 155 B

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 22 B or 12% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 30.0 kB

  • Original 620.5 kB
  • After minification 590.4 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. GHL Direct images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 18.1 kB
  • After minification 18.1 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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. Ghldirect.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

ghldirect.co.uk accessibility score

77

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

SEO Factors

ghldirect.co.uk SEO score

71

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ghldirect.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Ghldirect.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 GHL Direct. 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: