Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

livecareer.co.uk

LiveCareer: CV & Cover Letter Tools For Jobseekers in the UK

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

99 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

278 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Livecareer.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 99 ms and then it took 1.4 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

livecareer.co.uk performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

livecareer.co.uk

99 ms

www.livecareer.co.uk

90 ms

livecareer_uk_notag.png

134 ms

341606033.js

147 ms

segment-io-prod-lcuk.js

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Livecareer.co.uk, 43% (33 requests) were made to Cdn-us-ec.yottaa.net and 9% (7 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (358 ms) relates to the external source Api.segment.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 415.5 kB (51%)

Content Size

809.0 kB

After Optimization

393.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Livecareer.co.uk main page is 809.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 501.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 55.1 kB

  • Original 76.3 kB
  • After minification 71.0 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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 55.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 806 B

  • Original 70.4 kB
  • After minification 69.6 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 Career images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 226.3 kB

  • Original 501.2 kB
  • After minification 478.9 kB
  • After compression 274.9 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 226.3 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 133.3 kB

  • Original 161.1 kB
  • After minification 157.8 kB
  • After compression 27.8 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. Livecareer.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 133.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (67%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Live Career. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

livecareer.co.uk accessibility score

95

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

Best Practices

livecareer.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

livecareer.co.uk SEO score

82

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Livecareer.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 Livecareer.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

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