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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

closebusinessfinance.co.uk

Close Brothers Business Finance | Broker Finance Solutions

Page Load Speed

9.2 sec in total

First Response

2.7 sec

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

819 ms

About Website

Welcome to closebusinessfinance.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Close Business Finance best content right away, or after learning these important things about closebusinessfinance.co.uk

We work in partnership with a dedicated network of asset finance brokers to provide flexible funding solutions to SMEs across a range of industries in the UK.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Closebusinessfinance.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2.7 sec and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

closebusinessfinance.co.uk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value970 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.07

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

close-brothers-business-finance

2700 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

197 ms

otSDKStub.js

117 ms

optimize.js

90 ms

style-cf.css

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Closebusinessfinance.co.uk, 8% (3 requests) were made to Cdn-ukwest.onetrust.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to D1azc1qln24ryf.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source Closeassetfinance.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 88.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

911.3 kB

After Optimization

823.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Closebusinessfinance.co.uk main page is 911.3 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. 80% 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 694.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 86.0 kB

  • Original 108.3 kB
  • After minification 104.7 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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 86.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 694.3 kB
  • After minification 694.3 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. Close Business Finance images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 105 B

  • Original 28.9 kB
  • After minification 28.9 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 79.9 kB
  • After minification 79.9 kB
  • After compression 77.9 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. Closebusinessfinance.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (41%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Close Business Finance. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

closebusinessfinance.co.uk accessibility score

90

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

closebusinessfinance.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

closebusinessfinance.co.uk SEO score

98

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

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 Closebusinessfinance.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 Closebusinessfinance.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 Close Business Finance. 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: