Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

wmnow.co.uk

Home Page - WMnow

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

516 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

448 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wmnow.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 516 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wmnow.co.uk performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.113

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wmnow.co.uk

516 ms

bootstrap.min.css

278 ms

custom.css

366 ms

all.min.css

650 ms

shared.css

363 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 Wmnow.co.uk, 16% (4 requests) were made to V4-api.neighbourhoodalert.co.uk and 12% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.neighbourhoodalert.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Wmnow.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (76%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

551.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Wmnow.co.uk main page is 2.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 16.9 kB
  • After minification 14.9 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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 2.0 kB, which is 12% 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 12.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 347.1 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. Obviously, WMnow needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.6 MB or 82% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 42.9 kB

  • Original 119.4 kB
  • After minification 119.4 kB
  • After compression 76.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 42.9 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 55.3 kB

  • Original 178.9 kB
  • After minification 178.4 kB
  • After compression 123.6 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. Wmnow.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 55.3 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (55%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WMnow. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wmnow.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

wmnow.co.uk best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wmnow.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Wmnow.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 Wmnow.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 WMnow. 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: