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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

checkmyfile.co.uk

The UK's Most Detailed Credit Report & Credit Score – Checkmyfile

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

505 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Checkmyfile.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

checkmyfile.co.uk performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,600 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.4 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

checkmyfile.co.uk

43 ms

www.checkmyfile.com

465 ms

gtm.js

71 ms

jcl2ijn.js

56 ms

highcharts.css

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Checkmyfile.co.uk, 37% (34 requests) were made to Checkmyfile.com and 36% (33 requests) were made to Cdn.checkmyfile.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Log.cookieyes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 293.0 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Checkmyfile.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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 690.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 58.6 kB

  • Original 82.2 kB
  • After minification 73.0 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.2 kB, which is 11% 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 58.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 186.3 kB

  • Original 690.0 kB
  • After minification 503.8 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, Checkmyfile needs image optimization as it can save up to 186.3 kB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 497.2 kB
  • After minification 497.0 kB
  • After compression 463.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 68.4 kB
  • After minification 68.4 kB
  • After compression 54.3 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. Checkmyfile.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.1 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (50%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Checkmyfile. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

checkmyfile.co.uk accessibility score

74

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.

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

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

Best Practices

checkmyfile.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

checkmyfile.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

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Checkmyfile.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 Checkmyfile.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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