Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

shipping.dhl.co.uk

Global Logistics - International Shipping | DHL Home | United Kingdom

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

275 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

2.6 sec

About Website

Visit shipping.dhl.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Shipping DHL content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about shipping.dhl.co.uk

DHL is the global leader in the logistics industry. Specialising in international shipping, courier services and transportation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shipping.dhl.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 275 ms and then it took 6.3 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

shipping.dhl.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,160 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.132

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.9 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shipping.dhl.co.uk

275 ms

home.html

707 ms

bundle.270961fa78e1058aba882c197a383b7b.css

167 ms

clientlib-core.min.css

66 ms

clientlib-core.min.js

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Shipping.dhl.co.uk, 89% (39 requests) were made to Dhl.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Dhl.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (61%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

647.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Shipping.dhl.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 215.1 kB

  • Original 233.9 kB
  • After minification 153.1 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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 80.8 kB, which is 35% 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 215.1 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 261.3 kB
  • After minification 253.8 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. Shipping DHL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 706.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 374.0 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 706.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-99%

Potential reduce by 87.2 kB

  • Original 87.8 kB
  • After minification 655 B
  • After compression 634 B

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. Shipping.dhl.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 87.2 kB or 99% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (20%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shipping DHL. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

shipping.dhl.co.uk accessibility score

83

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 toggle fields do not have accessible names

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

shipping.dhl.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

shipping.dhl.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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 Shipping.dhl.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 Shipping.dhl.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 Shipping DHL. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: