Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ciao.co.uk

Ciao! Shopping Search Engine | Online shopping & Price comparison

Page Load Speed

13.6 sec in total

First Response

460 ms

Resources Loaded

12.8 sec

Page Rendered

279 ms

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About Website

Visit ciao.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Ciao content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ciao.co.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ciao.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 460 ms and then it took 13.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ciao.co.uk performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,510 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.255

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ciao.co.uk

460 ms

home.css

163 ms

libraries.js

484 ms

common.js

197 ms

home.js

197 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Ciao.co.uk, 14% (9 requests) were made to Uk-can1.ciao.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Uk-img.ciao.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.9 sec) relates to the external source Csimg.ciao.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.3 MB (36%)

Content Size

9.3 MB

After Optimization

6.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Ciao.co.uk main page is 9.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 74.4 kB

  • Original 82.3 kB
  • After minification 71.9 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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 10.4 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 74.4 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 263.3 kB

  • Original 5.4 MB
  • After minification 5.1 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. Ciao images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB
  • After compression 685.5 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 2.1 MB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 917.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 187.5 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. Ciao.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 917.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (46%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ciao. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ciao.co.uk accessibility score

90

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.

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

ciao.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ciao.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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ciao.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Ciao.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 Ciao. 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: