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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

thepensionsregulator.gov.uk

Workplace pensions law - auto enrolment | The Pensions Regulator

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

335 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

244 ms

About Website

Visit thepensionsregulator.gov.uk now to see the best up-to-date The Pensions Regulator content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thepensionsregulator.gov.uk

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) protects the UK’s workplace pensions. We make sure employers, trustees, pension specialists and business advisers can fulfil their duties to scheme members.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepensionsregulator.gov.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 335 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thepensionsregulator.gov.uk performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thepensionsregulator.gov.uk

335 ms

www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk

2577 ms

css

40 ms

font-awesome.min.css

30 ms

collapse.min.css

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Thepensionsregulator.gov.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Thepensionsregulator.gov.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 261.6 kB (41%)

Content Size

641.5 kB

After Optimization

379.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thepensionsregulator.gov.uk main page is 641.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 281.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 51.7 kB

  • Original 62.8 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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 20.8 kB, which is 33% 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 51.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 23.8 kB

  • Original 281.1 kB
  • After minification 257.3 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. The Pensions Regulator images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 130.6 kB

  • Original 194.8 kB
  • After minification 129.4 kB
  • After compression 64.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 130.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 55.6 kB

  • Original 102.9 kB
  • After minification 102.9 kB
  • After compression 47.3 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. Thepensionsregulator.gov.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 55.6 kB or 54% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (62%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Pensions Regulator. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thepensionsregulator.gov.uk accessibility score

88

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

thepensionsregulator.gov.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thepensionsregulator.gov.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Thepensionsregulator.gov.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 Thepensionsregulator.gov.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 The Pensions Regulator. 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: