Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

stopgap.co.uk

Stopgap | Marketing & Digital Recruitment Agency in London

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

282 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

231 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stopgap.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 282 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stopgap.co.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value21,740 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stopgap.co.uk

282 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.css

77 ms

colorbox.css

156 ms

base.css

157 ms

style.css

234 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Stopgap.co.uk, 4% (3 requests) were made to Platform.linkedin.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (774 ms) belongs to the original domain Stopgap.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 763.0 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

850.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Stopgap.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 797.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 23.3 kB

  • Original 29.1 kB
  • After minification 20.1 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 8.9 kB, which is 31% 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 23.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 166.0 kB

  • Original 797.8 kB
  • After minification 631.8 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, Stopgap needs image optimization as it can save up to 166.0 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 455.0 kB

  • Original 644.8 kB
  • After minification 632.1 kB
  • After compression 189.9 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 455.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 118.8 kB

  • Original 141.9 kB
  • After minification 120.9 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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. Stopgap.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 118.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (66%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stopgap. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stopgap.co.uk accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

stopgap.co.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

stopgap.co.uk SEO score

79

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

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stopgap.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 Stopgap.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 Stopgap. 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: