Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

legalcheek.com

Legal Cheek - law firm insight, news, careers, events

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

462 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

459 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Legalcheek.com page load time and found that the first response time was 462 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

legalcheek.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.legalcheek.com

462 ms

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35 ms

css

53 ms

css

77 ms

style.css

461 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Legalcheek.com, 37% (33 requests) were made to Cdn.legalcheek.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (736 ms) relates to the external source Aka-cdn-ns.adtech.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 298.7 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Legalcheek.com main page is 1.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 104.9 kB

  • Original 129.5 kB
  • After minification 109.7 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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 19.8 kB, which is 15% 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 104.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 48.5 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 955.5 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. Legal Cheek images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 44.7 kB

  • Original 77.9 kB
  • After minification 77.8 kB
  • After compression 33.2 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 44.7 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-100%

Potential reduce by 100.5 kB

  • Original 100.9 kB
  • After minification 606 B
  • After compression 388 B

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. Legalcheek.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 100.5 kB or 100% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (19%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

67

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Legal Cheek. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

legalcheek.com accessibility score

98

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Best Practices

legalcheek.com 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

legalcheek.com SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Legalcheek.com 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 Legalcheek.com 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 Legal Cheek. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: