Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

aegon.co.uk

Aegon UK | Pensions | Savings | Investments

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

434 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

212 ms

About Website

Welcome to aegon.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Aegon best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about aegon.co.uk

We've been empowering people to take control of their finances with pensions, retirement savings and investment solutions since 1831.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aegon.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 434 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aegon.co.uk performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.aegon.co.uk

434 ms

clientlib-base.min.bc31e6b7a5e95c39e7e0a82cffac845c.css

227 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

32 ms

launch-9ce0791933ed.min.js

33 ms

clientlib-site.min.dc36371ddb4849611b4e637d53402f62.css

790 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Aegon.co.uk, 4% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (790 ms) belongs to the original domain Aegon.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 386.0 kB (49%)

Content Size

791.6 kB

After Optimization

405.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Aegon.co.uk main page is 791.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 381.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 103.1 kB

  • Original 117.2 kB
  • After minification 96.1 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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 21.2 kB, which is 18% 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 103.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 289.1 kB
  • After minification 282.2 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. Aegon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 275.8 kB

  • Original 381.9 kB
  • After minification 381.9 kB
  • After compression 106.0 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 275.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 195 B

  • Original 3.4 kB
  • After minification 3.4 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. Aegon.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (55%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aegon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

aegon.co.uk accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

aegon.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

SEO Factors

aegon.co.uk SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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