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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

carehomeselection.co.uk

Find Care Home Availability and Local CQC Registered Home Carers

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

166 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

610 ms

carehomeselection.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Care Home Selection content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about carehomeselection.co.uk

We find registered home carers and care home availability in your area. A free, independent service widely commissioned by the NHS. Call 0800 008 7193.

Visit carehomeselection.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Carehomeselection.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 166 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

carehomeselection.co.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value47.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,770 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

carehomeselection.co.uk

166 ms

carehomeselection.co.uk

450 ms

gtm.js

106 ms

select2.min.css

59 ms

css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Carehomeselection.co.uk, 5% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Carehomeselection.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 153.6 kB (3%)

Content Size

6.0 MB

After Optimization

5.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Carehomeselection.co.uk main page is 6.0 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 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 77.6 kB

  • Original 95.4 kB
  • After minification 89.4 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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 77.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 52.4 kB

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 5.5 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. Care Home Selection images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 17.8 kB

  • Original 378.2 kB
  • After minification 376.5 kB
  • After compression 360.4 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 56.6 kB
  • After minification 56.6 kB
  • After compression 50.8 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. Carehomeselection.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 85 (80%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Care Home Selection. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 47 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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166 ms

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450 ms

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carehomeselection.co.uk

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166 ms

Accessibility Review

carehomeselection.co.uk accessibility score

97

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

carehomeselection.co.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

carehomeselection.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 Carehomeselection.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 Carehomeselection.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

carehomeselection.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Care Home Selection. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: