Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

no8chambers.co.uk

No.8 Barristers Chambers, established in Birmingham in 1974

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

230 ms

no8chambers.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to no8chambers.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check No8 Chambers best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about no8chambers.co.uk

No. 8 Chambers is one of the top barrister sets in the Midlands, dedicated to providing the highest possible standards of service, advice and advocacy.

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Key Findings

We analyzed No8chambers.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

no8chambers.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

no8chambers.co.uk

172 ms

www.no8chambers.co.uk

462 ms

widgetkit-38fa5b7e.css

166 ms

jquery.min.js

332 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

254 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original No8chambers.co.uk, 9% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (840 ms) belongs to the original domain No8chambers.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (72%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

430.0 kB

In fact, the total size of No8chambers.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 887.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 35.0 kB
  • After minification 23.4 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.6 kB, which is 33% 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 28.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 213.8 kB
  • After minification 207.0 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. No8 Chambers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 722.8 kB

  • Original 887.6 kB
  • After minification 543.0 kB
  • After compression 164.8 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 722.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 365.4 kB

  • Original 417.2 kB
  • After minification 305.4 kB
  • After compression 51.8 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. No8chambers.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 365.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (47%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of No8 Chambers. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

no8chambers.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

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

no8chambers.co.uk best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

no8chambers.co.uk SEO score

87

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise No8chambers.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 No8chambers.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 No8 Chambers. 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: