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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

esl.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

12.4 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

11.5 sec

Page Rendered

824 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Esl.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 12.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

esl.co.uk performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

56/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

esl.co.uk

39 ms

www.esl.co.uk

438 ms

en

257 ms

gtm.js

74 ms

css_OKjf9Df1Gf1ksiZeEKrOJDZwQ--RuwZHcCMLlr6BrqY.css

391 ms

Our browser made a total of 219 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (209 requests) were addressed to the original Esl.co.uk, 4% (8 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to and 0% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Esl.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 32.8 kB (2%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Esl.co.uk main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. ESL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 248.5 kB
  • After minification 248.5 kB
  • After compression 225.2 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (22%)

Requests Now

176

After Optimization

137

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 176 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ESL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

esl.co.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

esl.co.uk best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

esl.co.uk SEO score

84

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

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