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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

immigrationdirect.co.uk

Prepare Your British Citizenship | Immigration Direct

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

975 ms

Page Rendered

161 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Immigrationdirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 1.1 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

immigrationdirect.co.uk performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.167

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

immigrationdirect.co.uk

165 ms

www.immigrationdirect.co.uk

274 ms

all.css

193 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

252 ms

jquery.cookie.js

191 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Immigrationdirect.co.uk, 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (274 ms) belongs to the original domain Immigrationdirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 52.8 kB (16%)

Content Size

323.4 kB

After Optimization

270.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Immigrationdirect.co.uk main page is 323.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 197.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 25.9 kB

  • Original 31.0 kB
  • After minification 20.1 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.9 kB, which is 35% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 25.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6 B

  • Original 197.8 kB
  • After minification 197.8 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. Immigration Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 43.2 kB
  • After minification 43.2 kB
  • After compression 35.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 7.5 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

  • Original 51.3 kB
  • After minification 51.3 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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. Immigrationdirect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.4 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (23%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Immigration Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

immigrationdirect.co.uk

immigrationdirect.co.uk

165 ms

www.immigrationdirect.co.uk

www.immigrationdirect.co.uk

274 ms

all.css

all.css

193 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

252 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

191 ms

wheretostart.js

wheretostart.js

205 ms

static-scripts.js

static-scripts.js

205 ms

common.js

common.js

205 ms

css

css

29 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

90 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

65 ms

statue-top.jpg

statue-top.jpg

67 ms

header-flag.jpg

header-flag.jpg

63 ms

logo.png

logo.png

66 ms

Container-Bg.gif

Container-Bg.gif

66 ms

nav-bg.gif

nav-bg.gif

65 ms

nav-bg-brd.gif

nav-bg-brd.gif

124 ms

m-hero-img-new.png

m-hero-img-new.png

256 ms

lady-smiling.jpg

lady-smiling.jpg

196 ms

most-search-form-list.png

most-search-form-list.png

133 ms

uk-passport.png

uk-passport.png

134 ms

uk-pr-card.png

uk-pr-card.png

135 ms

start-appl-yellow-bg.gif

start-appl-yellow-bg.gif

185 ms

drop-down-arrow.png

drop-down-arrow.png

198 ms

Accessibility Review

immigrationdirect.co.uk accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

immigrationdirect.co.uk 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

immigrationdirect.co.uk 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Immigrationdirect.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 Immigrationdirect.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

immigrationdirect.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Immigration 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: