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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

jobs.guardian.co.uk

Job search | Find your dream job with Guardian Jobs

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

13 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

161 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Jobs.guardian.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 13 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

jobs.guardian.co.uk performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

52/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.9

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

jobs.guardian.co.uk

13 ms

jobs.theguardian.com

157 ms

fonts.pasteup.min.css

23 ms

package.css;p=master,bespoke,branding;v=23d10d69179d179057c9ce7fed40c2e5

4 ms

lazyad-loader.min.js;v=a9c6ba5eae065cbd08d84c8f29a9f5e5

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Jobs.guardian.co.uk, 79% (33 requests) were made to Jobs.theguardian.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Consent.theguardian.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (392 ms) relates to the external source Analytics.madgex.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 104.9 kB (17%)

Content Size

617.6 kB

After Optimization

512.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Jobs.guardian.co.uk main page is 617.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 290.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 96.8 kB

  • Original 115.7 kB
  • After minification 94.9 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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 20.9 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 96.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 176.6 kB
  • After minification 170.5 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. Jobs Guardian images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 290.4 kB
  • After minification 290.3 kB
  • After compression 288.4 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 48 B

  • Original 34.9 kB
  • After minification 34.9 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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. Jobs.guardian.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (35%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Jobs Guardian. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

jobs.guardian.co.uk accessibility score

92

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

jobs.guardian.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

jobs.guardian.co.uk SEO score

97

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 Jobs.guardian.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 Jobs.guardian.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 Jobs Guardian. 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: