Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

branches.halifax.co.uk

All Halifax branches in the United Kingdom | Savings, Loans, Credit Cards & Mortgages

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

817 ms

Page Rendered

352 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Branches.halifax.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

branches.halifax.co.uk performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,920 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

branches.halifax.co.uk

47 ms

styles.c1b53db5.css

32 ms

en_GB.3977a884.js

146 ms

answers.css

65 ms

answerstemplates.compiled.min.js

117 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Branches.halifax.co.uk, 16% (6 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Assets.sitescdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (443 ms) relates to the external source Dynl.mktgcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 133.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

917.1 kB

After Optimization

783.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Branches.halifax.co.uk main page is 917.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 660.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 129.9 kB

  • Original 148.6 kB
  • After minification 148.6 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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 129.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 95.0 kB
  • After minification 92.0 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. Branches Halifax images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 207 B

  • Original 660.9 kB
  • After minification 660.7 kB
  • After compression 660.6 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 12.6 kB
  • After minification 12.6 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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. Branches.halifax.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (66%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Branches Halifax. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

branches.halifax.co.uk accessibility score

84

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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.

Best Practices

branches.halifax.co.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

branches.halifax.co.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Branches.halifax.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 Branches.halifax.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 data is detected on the main page of Branches Halifax. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: