Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

numberplates.com

Private Number Plates For Sale | Regtransfers

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

406 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

numberplates.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Number Plates content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about numberplates.com

Largest private number plate supplier with millions available. Est. 1982. FREE valuations. 0% finance. Lines open 9am - 9pm, 7 days a week

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Key Findings

We analyzed Numberplates.com page load time and found that the first response time was 406 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

numberplates.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.423

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.regtransfers.co.uk

406 ms

css2

35 ms

dvla-vrm-regular.css

150 ms

style.css

24 ms

home.css

225 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Numberplates.com, 16% (6 requests) were made to Regtransfers.co.uk and 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Images.regtransfers.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 102.2 kB (17%)

Content Size

601.0 kB

After Optimization

498.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Numberplates.com main page is 601.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 419.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 95.4 kB

  • Original 116.8 kB
  • After minification 88.1 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 28.7 kB, which is 25% 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 95.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 419.0 kB
  • After minification 417.9 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. Number Plates images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 28.4 kB
  • After minification 28.4 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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 4.7 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 978 B

  • Original 36.8 kB
  • After minification 36.8 kB
  • After compression 35.8 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. Numberplates.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (22%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Number Plates. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

numberplates.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

numberplates.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

numberplates.com SEO score

93

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

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 Numberplates.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 Numberplates.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 Number Plates. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: