Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

cmcmarkets.co.uk

CFDs & Forex | Online Trading| CMC Markets

Page Load Speed

17.1 sec in total

First Response

7 ms

Resources Loaded

9 sec

Page Rendered

8.1 sec

cmcmarkets.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cmcmarkets.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 7 ms and then it took 17.1 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

cmcmarkets.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,970 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.15

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

en

7 ms

549 ms

core.css

35 ms

app-21.min.js

1197 ms

gtm.js

476 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cmcmarkets.co.uk, 48% (38 requests) were made to Assets.cmcmarkets.com and 10% (8 requests) were made to Cmcmarkets.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.6 sec) relates to the external source Assets.cmcmarkets.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (41%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Cmcmarkets.co.uk main page is 3.1 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. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 168.8 kB

  • Original 206.1 kB
  • After minification 196.6 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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 168.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 90.4 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. CMC Markets images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 761.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 410.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 761.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 271.2 kB

  • Original 319.2 kB
  • After minification 298.6 kB
  • After compression 48.0 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. Cmcmarkets.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 271.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (33%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CMC Markets. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cmcmarkets.co.uk accessibility score

94

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.

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

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

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

cmcmarkets.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cmcmarkets.co.uk SEO score

91

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 Cmcmarkets.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 Cmcmarkets.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 CMC Markets. 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: