Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

boefastapp.com

Bank of England Mortgage FastApp - Your Journey Home Starts Here

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

114 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

552 ms

About Website

Welcome to boefastapp.com homepage info - get ready to check Boe Fast App best content right away, or after learning these important things about boefastapp.com

The Bank of England Mortgage FastApp is the first of its generation mobile apps built to streamline the home mortgage process. The FastApp contains everything you need to finance the home of your drea...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boefastapp.com page load time and found that the first response time was 114 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

boefastapp.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,470 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.395

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

boefastapp.com

114 ms

css

57 ms

bootstrap.min.css

50 ms

lightslider.css

70 ms

css

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Boefastapp.com, 24% (21 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 12% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Boefastapp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 542.3 kB (17%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Boefastapp.com 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. 75% 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 17.8 kB

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 19.3 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 4.3 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 17.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Boe Fast App images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 370.7 kB

  • Original 704.8 kB
  • After minification 704.8 kB
  • After compression 334.0 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 370.7 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 133.3 kB

  • Original 155.3 kB
  • After minification 122.7 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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. Boefastapp.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 133.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (68%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boe Fast App. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

boefastapp.com accessibility score

73

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

boefastapp.com 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

boefastapp.com SEO score

85

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

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 Boefastapp.com 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 Boefastapp.com 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 Boe Fast App. 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: