Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

recruitment-empire.co.uk

UK's Leading Interpreter & Translator Recruitment Agency | Recruitment Empire

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

193 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Recruitment-empire.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 1.9 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

recruitment-empire.co.uk performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

recruitment-empire.co.uk

14 ms

www.recruitment-empire.co.uk

31 ms

analytics.js

45 ms

autotrack.dd5c63d1.js

12 ms

style.min.css

367 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Recruitment-empire.co.uk, 18% (13 requests) were made to R.bing.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (647 ms) belongs to the original domain Recruitment-empire.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 258.1 kB (26%)

Content Size

979.9 kB

After Optimization

721.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Recruitment-empire.co.uk main page is 979.9 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. CSS take 306.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 67.2 kB

  • Original 86.4 kB
  • After minification 81.7 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 67.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 65.2 kB

  • Original 303.7 kB
  • After minification 238.5 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, Recruitment Empire needs image optimization as it can save up to 65.2 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 19.5 kB

  • Original 283.6 kB
  • After minification 283.6 kB
  • After compression 264.1 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

-35%

Potential reduce by 106.2 kB

  • Original 306.2 kB
  • After minification 289.8 kB
  • After compression 200.0 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. Recruitment-empire.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 106.2 kB or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (89%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Recruitment Empire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

recruitment-empire.co.uk accessibility score

74

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

recruitment-empire.co.uk best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

recruitment-empire.co.uk SEO score

95

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Recruitment-empire.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 Recruitment-empire.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 Recruitment Empire. 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: