Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

licensingmatters.net

Licensing Matters, The UK's Leading Licensing Consultancy Agency

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

597 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

624 ms

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About Website

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Licensing Matters are the UK's leading licensing consultancy agency offering Personal Licence Courses and help and advice to the alcohol trade.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Licensingmatters.net page load time and found that the first response time was 597 ms and then it took 7.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

licensingmatters.net performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,820 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.077

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.licensingmatters.net

597 ms

gtm.js

61 ms

a75aa7a356d58293ec7074d9accbbdf5.css

176 ms

0d0fc069e7f622cacf01f6fcf8848149.css

263 ms

1311c1c94a5ed7e66d5fa64c57ca0b91.css

266 ms

Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (127 requests) were addressed to the original Licensingmatters.net, 7% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (835 ms) belongs to the original domain Licensingmatters.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 164.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Licensingmatters.net main page is 1.7 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 774.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 158.5 kB

  • Original 193.5 kB
  • After minification 187.9 kB
  • After compression 35.1 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. 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 158.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 774.8 kB
  • After minification 770.1 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. Licensing Matters images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 583.6 kB
  • After minification 583.6 kB
  • After compression 582.5 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 518 B

  • Original 130.8 kB
  • After minification 130.8 kB
  • After compression 130.2 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. Licensingmatters.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 105 (79%)

Requests Now

133

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 133 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Licensing Matters. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 71 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 36 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

licensingmatters.net accessibility score

91

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

licensingmatters.net 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

licensingmatters.net SEO score

91

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

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 Licensingmatters.net 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 Licensingmatters.net 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 Licensing Matters. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: