Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

octopus.energy

Octopus Energy: The UK's most awarded energy supplier

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

octopus.energy screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Octopus.energy page load time and found that the first response time was 140 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

octopus.energy performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

octopus.energy

140 ms

octopus.energy

320 ms

gtm.js

87 ms

fonts.min.css

130 ms

styles.min.88e96cfabccf.css

208 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Octopus.energy, 3% (3 requests) were made to Static.octopuscdn.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to O28796.ingest.sentry.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Octopus.energy.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 585.0 kB (68%)

Content Size

864.2 kB

After Optimization

279.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Octopus.energy main page is 864.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 735.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 584.1 kB

  • Original 735.2 kB
  • After minification 704.4 kB
  • After compression 151.1 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 584.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 29.6 kB
  • After minification 29.6 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. Octopus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 218 B

  • Original 10.7 kB
  • After minification 10.7 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 633 B

  • Original 88.6 kB
  • After minification 88.5 kB
  • After compression 88.0 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. Octopus.energy has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (17%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

67

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Octopus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

octopus.energy accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

octopus.energy 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

octopus.energy SEO score

85

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

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