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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

live-forex.co.uk

Live Forex - Exchange Rates and Charts

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

158 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

218 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Live Forex content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about live-forex.co.uk

Providing up to the minute live forex rates, foreign exchange rates, tools, charts and news for individuals or business that wish to keep ahead of the currency markets.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Live-forex.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 158 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

live-forex.co.uk performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,390 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.353

31/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

live-forex.co.uk

158 ms

www.live-forex.co.uk

234 ms

main.css

225 ms

js

60 ms

adsbygoogle.js

162 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Live-forex.co.uk, 15% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 11% (3 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (561 ms) relates to the external source Torfx.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 187.4 kB (27%)

Content Size

703.0 kB

After Optimization

515.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Live-forex.co.uk main page is 703.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 365.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 23.4 kB
  • After minification 21.1 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 18.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 15 B

  • Original 214.3 kB
  • After minification 214.3 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. Live Forex images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 84.4 kB

  • Original 365.9 kB
  • After minification 356.9 kB
  • After compression 281.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 84.4 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 85.0 kB

  • Original 99.3 kB
  • After minification 82.1 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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. Live-forex.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 85.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (33%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Live Forex. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

live-forex.co.uk

live-forex.co.uk

158 ms

www.live-forex.co.uk

www.live-forex.co.uk

234 ms

main.css

main.css

225 ms

js

js

60 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

162 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

315 ms

skel.min.js

skel.min.js

151 ms

util.js

util.js

156 ms

main.js

main.js

155 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

76 ms

css

css

40 ms

300x600_currency.gif

300x600_currency.gif

149 ms

exchangerates.png

exchangerates.png

85 ms

currencyconverter.png

currencyconverter.png

163 ms

pivotpoints.png

pivotpoints.png

99 ms

news.png

news.png

234 ms

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BngbUXZYTXPIvIBgJJSb6s3BzlRRfKOFbvjoa4Omb2Rm.ttf

65 ms

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BngbUXZYTXPIvIBgJJSb6s3BzlRRfKOFbvjojISmb2Rm.ttf

65 ms

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129 ms

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memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsgH1x4gaVc.ttf

130 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

291 ms

300x600_currency.gif

300x600_currency.gif

561 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

78 ms

adControl.php

adControl.php

379 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

27 ms

ads

ads

384 ms

ads

ads

321 ms

Accessibility Review

live-forex.co.uk accessibility score

66

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

live-forex.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

live-forex.co.uk SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Live-forex.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 Live-forex.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

live-forex.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Live Forex. 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: