Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

wave-digital.co.uk

Technology Solutions, Attract More Talent, Talent Acquisition - Wave

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

755 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

585 ms

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About Website

Welcome to wave-digital.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Wave Digital best content right away, or after learning these important things about wave-digital.co.uk

Wave provides technology solutions and talent acqusition strategy to recruitment agencies. Our 'Build, Buy, Post' approach helps to attract more talent.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wave-digital.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 755 ms and then it took 6.1 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

wave-digital.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,250 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.2 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wave-rs.co.uk

755 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

400 ms

268 ms

jquery-ui.css

54 ms

jquery.js

432 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Wave-digital.co.uk, 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Wave-rs.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 34.6 kB (4%)

Content Size

877.4 kB

After Optimization

842.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Wave-digital.co.uk main page is 877.4 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. Images take 777.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 44.8 kB
  • After minification 44.7 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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. 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 32.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 777.5 kB
  • After minification 777.5 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. Wave Digital images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 47.1 kB
  • After minification 45.9 kB
  • After compression 45.2 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 719 B

  • Original 8.1 kB
  • After minification 8.1 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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. Wave-digital.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (46%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wave Digital. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wave-digital.co.uk accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

wave-digital.co.uk 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

wave-digital.co.uk SEO score

86

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Wave-digital.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 Wave-digital.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 Wave Digital. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: