Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

virgincare.co.uk

Virgin Care

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

320 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Virgincare.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

virgincare.co.uk performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.virgincare.co.uk

1243 ms

qna0hpq.js

134 ms

chosen.min.css

9 ms

screen.css

306 ms

owl.carousel.css

172 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Virgincare.co.uk, 9% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Virgincare.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 678.3 kB (61%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

437.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Virgincare.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 520.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

  • Original 41.0 kB
  • After minification 34.9 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 6.0 kB, which is 15% 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 33.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 218.3 kB
  • After minification 199.2 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. Virgin Care images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 346.6 kB

  • Original 520.8 kB
  • After minification 518.3 kB
  • After compression 174.3 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 346.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 279.5 kB

  • Original 335.8 kB
  • After minification 333.8 kB
  • After compression 56.3 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. Virgincare.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 279.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (47%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Virgin Care. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

virgincare.co.uk accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

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

virgincare.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

virgincare.co.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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