Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

thepensionplanner.co.uk

Home | The Pension Planner | Independent Financial Advisers

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

97 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

thepensionplanner.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to thepensionplanner.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check The Pension Planner best content right away, or after learning these important things about thepensionplanner.co.uk

We are Independent Financial Advisers, helping people at every stage of retirement to maximise the value of their pension and achieve their ideal lifestyle.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepensionplanner.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 97 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thepensionplanner.co.uk performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,270 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thepensionplanner.co.uk

97 ms

www.thepensionplanner.co.uk

235 ms

dtg6gyn.css

704 ms

style.min.css

150 ms

wpcf7-redirect-frontend.min.css

386 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Thepensionplanner.co.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Static.hotjar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (704 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 273.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Thepensionplanner.co.uk main page is 3.2 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 82.5 kB

  • Original 103.0 kB
  • After minification 97.7 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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 82.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 163.3 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. The Pension Planner images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 108.4 kB
  • After minification 107.6 kB
  • After compression 95.6 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 12.8 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 96.3 kB
  • After minification 96.3 kB
  • After compression 81.5 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. Thepensionplanner.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (65%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Pension Planner. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thepensionplanner.co.uk accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

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

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

thepensionplanner.co.uk best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thepensionplanner.co.uk SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Thepensionplanner.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 Thepensionplanner.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 The Pension Planner. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: