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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

plainenglish.co.uk

Plain English Campaign

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

721 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

258 ms

plainenglish.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Plain English content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about plainenglish.co.uk

Plain English Campaign is an independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plainenglish.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 721 ms and then it took 2.2 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

plainenglish.co.uk performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.8 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

plainenglish.co.uk

721 ms

system.css

199 ms

position.css

205 ms

layout.css

302 ms

general.css

208 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Plainenglish.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (721 ms) belongs to the original domain Plainenglish.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 414.6 kB (58%)

Content Size

714.0 kB

After Optimization

299.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Plainenglish.co.uk main page is 714.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 340.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

  • Original 18.5 kB
  • After minification 15.9 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 2.6 kB, which is 14% 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 13.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 97.7 kB

  • Original 281.3 kB
  • After minification 183.6 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. Obviously, Plain English needs image optimization as it can save up to 97.7 kB or 35% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 241.7 kB

  • Original 340.6 kB
  • After minification 335.3 kB
  • After compression 98.9 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 241.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 61.8 kB

  • Original 73.5 kB
  • After minification 46.3 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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. Plainenglish.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 61.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (32%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Plain English. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

plainenglish.co.uk

plainenglish.co.uk

721 ms

system.css

system.css

199 ms

position.css

position.css

205 ms

layout.css

layout.css

302 ms

general.css

general.css

208 ms

personal.css

personal.css

305 ms

mootools-core.js

mootools-core.js

510 ms

core.js

core.js

298 ms

caption.js

caption.js

305 ms

mootools-more.js

mootools-more.js

719 ms

EUCookieDirective.js

EUCookieDirective.js

253 ms

system.css

system.css

208 ms

continue_button.png

continue_button.png

104 ms

bg2.png

bg2.png

106 ms

personal2.png

personal2.png

107 ms

pecheader.png

pecheader.png

108 ms

ecke.png

ecke.png

105 ms

navi_active.png

navi_active.png

108 ms

karo.gif

karo.gif

106 ms

redpen.jpg

redpen.jpg

206 ms

training.jpg

training.jpg

306 ms

accreditation.png

accreditation.png

308 ms

corporate.jpg

corporate.jpg

307 ms

consult.jpg

consult.jpg

211 ms

utterdrivel.jpg

utterdrivel.jpg

212 ms

arrow1.gif

arrow1.gif

305 ms

tabs_back.png

tabs_back.png

311 ms

FB-f-Logo__blue_29.png

FB-f-Logo__blue_29.png

312 ms

Twitter_logo_blue.png

Twitter_logo_blue.png

406 ms

In-2C-28px-TM.png

In-2C-28px-TM.png

408 ms

info_icon.png

info_icon.png

202 ms

print.css

print.css

105 ms

Accessibility Review

plainenglish.co.uk accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

plainenglish.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

plainenglish.co.uk SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Plainenglish.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 Plainenglish.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

plainenglish.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Plain English. 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: