Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

store.virginmediabusiness.co.uk

Virgin Media Business | Business and Public Sector Services

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

317 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

688 ms

About Website

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Virgin Media Business provides UK business internet and telecommunications services including business broadband and leased lines. Find out more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Store.virginmediabusiness.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 317 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

store.virginmediabusiness.co.uk performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,100 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.14

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

store.virginmediabusiness.co.uk

317 ms

www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk

441 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICA27NVfjqrux_10285240307101407.js

41 ms

cq-combined.min.62f22bf423cbb1e4d8e328c5af10b36f.js

18 ms

main.min.7f852994b0143efd04c6714ad6d395e4.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Store.virginmediabusiness.co.uk, 61% (48 requests) were made to Virginmediabusiness.co.uk and 6% (5 requests) were made to Lpcdn.lpsnmedia.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (560 ms) relates to the external source Lo.v.liveperson.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (19%)

Content Size

8.5 MB

After Optimization

6.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Store.virginmediabusiness.co.uk main page is 8.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 153.4 kB

  • Original 176.5 kB
  • After minification 174.7 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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. 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 153.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 7.1 MB
  • After minification 6.1 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. Obviously, Store Virgin Media Business needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.0 MB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 450.0 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 736.6 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 450.0 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (41%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Store Virgin Media Business. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

store.virginmediabusiness.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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a valid value for its [lang] attribute.

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

store.virginmediabusiness.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

store.virginmediabusiness.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

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 Store.virginmediabusiness.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 Store.virginmediabusiness.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 Store Virgin Media Business. 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: