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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

virginmoney.com

Online Banking: Personal & Business | Virgin Money UK

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

357 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

748 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Virginmoney.com page load time and found that the first response time was 357 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

virginmoney.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,030 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

virginmoney.com

357 ms

uk.virginmoney.com

679 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICANQVfqru_10289240325103055.js

561 ms

dg.js

26 ms

mmcore.js

455 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Virginmoney.com, 72% (67 requests) were made to Uk.virginmoney.com and 8% (7 requests) were made to C.evidon.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Uk.virginmoney.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 774.5 kB (31%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Virginmoney.com main page is 2.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 129.0 kB

  • Original 159.6 kB
  • After minification 138.5 kB
  • After compression 30.7 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 21.1 kB, which is 13% 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 129.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Virgin Money images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 381.4 kB

  • Original 630.7 kB
  • After minification 630.3 kB
  • After compression 249.3 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 381.4 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 239.9 kB

  • Original 319.5 kB
  • After minification 318.0 kB
  • After compression 79.6 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. Virginmoney.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 239.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (39%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

49

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Virgin Money. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

virginmoney.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

virginmoney.com best practices score

75

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

virginmoney.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Virginmoney.com 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 Virginmoney.com 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 Virgin Money. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: