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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    69% of websites

thatcham.org

Car safety and security | Thatcham Research, the motor insurers’ research centre

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

186 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

2.1 sec

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About Website

Welcome to thatcham.org homepage info - get ready to check Thatcham best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about thatcham.org

Established by the motor insurance industry, the centre’s aim is to contain or reduce the cost of motor insurance claims and maintain car safety standards.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thatcham.org page load time and found that the first response time was 186 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thatcham.org performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.089

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thatcham.org

186 ms

www.thatcham.org

1118 ms

gtm.js

93 ms

style.min.css

90 ms

styles.css

177 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Thatcham.org, 15% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Thatcham.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 76.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thatcham.org main page is 2.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 43.2 kB

  • Original 52.3 kB
  • After minification 45.7 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.6 kB, which is 13% 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 43.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 33.0 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB

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. Thatcham images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 401 B

  • Original 103.2 kB
  • After minification 103.1 kB
  • After compression 102.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 291 B

  • Original 61.6 kB
  • After minification 61.6 kB
  • After compression 61.3 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. Thatcham.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (50%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thatcham. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thatcham.org

thatcham.org

186 ms

www.thatcham.org

www.thatcham.org

1118 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

93 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

90 ms

styles.css

styles.css

177 ms

app.css

app.css

402 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

333 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

240 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

252 ms

index.js

index.js

251 ms

vendor.js

vendor.js

330 ms

app.js

app.js

318 ms

api.js

api.js

116 ms

index.js

index.js

323 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

113 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

114 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

39 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

css

css

54 ms

line-bg.png

line-bg.png

217 ms

cropped-ThatchamResearch_MasterLogo_Primary_RGB-1.png

cropped-ThatchamResearch_MasterLogo_Primary_RGB-1.png

211 ms

iStock-456075475-Copy.jpg

iStock-456075475-Copy.jpg

995 ms

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Bassetlaw-DC-Gamston-Visit-1.jpg

826 ms

Mercedes-Benz_C-Class_2022_3.jpg

Mercedes-Benz_C-Class_2022_3.jpg

995 ms

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Lee-and-Bradley-Rankin.jpg

825 ms

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D4S_2713-1.jpg

825 ms

D4S_2155.jpg

D4S_2155.jpg

990 ms

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training-in-protective-gear.jpg

1052 ms

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1020 ms

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424 ms

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681 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

972 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

662 ms

right-arrow.png

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569 ms

slick.woff

slick.woff

1044 ms

slick.ttf

slick.ttf

708 ms

collect

collect

7 ms

Accessibility Review

thatcham.org accessibility score

91

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

thatcham.org best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thatcham.org SEO score

90

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 Thatcham.org 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 Thatcham.org 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

thatcham.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Thatcham. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: