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FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,770 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.6 s

6/100

10%

insurancetimes.co.uk

163 ms

www.insurancetimes.co.uk

381 ms

header_js.aspx

164 ms

B69834402221AB45CA2E1DF85D4D03AD.css

313 ms

fixedwidths.css

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Insurancetimes.co.uk, 20% (16 requests) were made to Ddwkw34138qmv.cloudfront.net and 6% (5 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (715 ms) belongs to the original domain Insurancetimes.co.uk.

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

767.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Insurancetimes.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 673.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 53.5 kB

Original 66.3 kB
After minification 61.7 kB
After compression 12.9 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. 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 53.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 97.5 kB

Original 673.0 kB
After minification 575.5 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. Obviously, Insurance Times needs image optimization as it can save up to 97.5 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 248.5 kB

Original 412.3 kB
After minification 404.8 kB
After compression 163.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 248.5 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 99.2 kB

Original 114.8 kB
After minification 105.9 kB
After compression 15.7 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. Insurancetimes.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Insurance Times. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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/).

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 Insurancetimes.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 Insurancetimes.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

insurancetimes.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Insurance Times. 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:

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Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)