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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ldc.co.uk

LDC Private Equity Investment Firm | Trusted with Ambition®

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

759 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Welcome to ldc.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check LDC best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about ldc.co.uk

Part of Lloyds Banking Group, LDC has been the trusted private equity investment partner for ambitious management teams since 1981.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ldc.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 759 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ldc.co.uk performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,950 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.443

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ldc.co.uk

759 ms

js

51 ms

gtm.js

159 ms

script.js

94 ms

style.css

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Ldc.co.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Cdn-cookieyes.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (759 ms) belongs to the original domain Ldc.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 212.1 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ldc.co.uk main page is 1.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 184.6 kB

  • Original 222.7 kB
  • After minification 163.7 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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 59.0 kB, which is 27% 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 184.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 26.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. LDC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 564 B

  • Original 289.9 kB
  • After minification 289.9 kB
  • After compression 289.3 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 115 B

  • Original 42.2 kB
  • After minification 42.2 kB
  • After compression 42.1 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. Ldc.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (66%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of LDC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ldc.co.uk

ldc.co.uk

759 ms

js

js

51 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

159 ms

script.js

script.js

94 ms

style.css

style.css

83 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

309 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

394 ms

jquery.json.min.js

jquery.json.min.js

481 ms

gravityforms.min.js

gravityforms.min.js

513 ms

conditional_logic.min.js

conditional_logic.min.js

478 ms

utils.min.js

utils.min.js

481 ms

form-loader.js

form-loader.js

34 ms

_hero-img-callout.css

_hero-img-callout.css

475 ms

_copy-image.css

_copy-image.css

507 ms

_sector-region-boxes.css

_sector-region-boxes.css

508 ms

_full-bleed-quote.css

_full-bleed-quote.css

507 ms

_homepage-news.css

_homepage-news.css

508 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

508 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

563 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

659 ms

dom-ready.min.js

dom-ready.min.js

562 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

577 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

579 ms

a11y.min.js

a11y.min.js

577 ms

jquery.textareaCounter.plugin.min.js

jquery.textareaCounter.plugin.min.js

645 ms

placeholders.jquery.min.js

placeholders.jquery.min.js

646 ms

vendor-theme.min.js

vendor-theme.min.js

646 ms

scripts-theme.min.js

scripts-theme.min.js

649 ms

afl-wc-utm-public.min.js

afl-wc-utm-public.min.js

653 ms

main.js

main.js

740 ms

skip-link-focus-fix.js

skip-link-focus-fix.js

728 ms

hero-img-callout-slider.js

hero-img-callout-slider.js

733 ms

video-colour.js

video-colour.js

731 ms

sector-region-boxes.js

sector-region-boxes.js

736 ms

homepage-news.js

homepage-news.js

748 ms

log

log

607 ms

NEW_LDC23_LOGO_WIP-1.svg

NEW_LDC23_LOGO_WIP-1.svg

654 ms

search_icon_black.svg

search_icon_black.svg

423 ms

accordion_icon.svg

accordion_icon.svg

424 ms

close_icon.svg

close_icon.svg

428 ms

search_icon_accent.svg

search_icon_accent.svg

429 ms

LDC-WEB-BANNER-Home-June-2023-Croud.jpg

LDC-WEB-BANNER-Home-June-2023-Croud.jpg

511 ms

LDC-WEB-BANNER-Home-June-2023-Talos360.jpg

LDC-WEB-BANNER-Home-June-2023-Talos360.jpg

666 ms

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230630-Home-Hybrid-.jpg

666 ms

LDC-WEB-BANNER-Home-June-2023-Fever-Tree.jpg

LDC-WEB-BANNER-Home-June-2023-Fever-Tree.jpg

601 ms

LDC-WEB-BANNER-Home-June-2023-Scarlett-Abbot.jpg

LDC-WEB-BANNER-Home-June-2023-Scarlett-Abbot.jpg

516 ms

LDC-WEB-BANNER-Home-June-2023-Shaken-Udder.jpg

LDC-WEB-BANNER-Home-June-2023-Shaken-Udder.jpg

600 ms

AV8Y3730-701x531-1.jpg

AV8Y3730-701x531-1.jpg

677 ms

LDC-Impact-Web-Infographic-710px.jpg

LDC-Impact-Web-Infographic-710px.jpg

637 ms

LDC-Impact-Web-Infographic-710px2.jpg

LDC-Impact-Web-Infographic-710px2.jpg

719 ms

quote-accent.svg

quote-accent.svg

642 ms

Boston-Energy-News-story-701x531-1.jpg

Boston-Energy-News-story-701x531-1.jpg

743 ms

twitter_icon.svg

twitter_icon.svg

657 ms

youtube_icon.svg

youtube_icon.svg

718 ms

linkedin_icon.svg

linkedin_icon.svg

736 ms

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LibreFranklin-Regular.d32fd4fe.woff

685 ms

LibreFranklin-Bold.f9fc3425.woff

LibreFranklin-Bold.f9fc3425.woff

715 ms

close.svg

close.svg

732 ms

accordion_icon.svg

accordion_icon.svg

729 ms

close_icon.svg

close_icon.svg

719 ms

Bravespark-Video-Tile.jpg

Bravespark-Video-Tile.jpg

755 ms

select_accordion_icon_primary.svg

select_accordion_icon_primary.svg

677 ms

f0OlBvqS

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430 ms

Accessibility Review

ldc.co.uk accessibility score

90

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

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

Best Practices

ldc.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

ldc.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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 Ldc.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 Ldc.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

ldc.co.uk

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