Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

citizensadvice.co.uk

Get advice in Northern Ireland - Citizens Advice

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

252 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

247 ms

citizensadvice.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit citizensadvice.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Citizens Advice content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about citizensadvice.co.uk

Citizens Advice is the largest advice charity in Northern Ireland, working against poverty and meeting the information and advice needs of over 84,400 people per year in bureaux.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citizensadvice.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 252 ms and then it took 2.5 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

citizensadvice.co.uk performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.097

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citizensadvice.co.uk

252 ms

www.citizensadvice.co.uk

359 ms

all.css

284 ms

css

23 ms

functions.js

255 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Citizensadvice.co.uk, 18% (11 requests) were made to F1.eu.readspeaker.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (777 ms) belongs to the original domain Citizensadvice.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 922.9 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

965.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Citizensadvice.co.uk main page is 1.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 33.3 kB

  • Original 39.3 kB
  • After minification 36.1 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. 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 33.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 531.0 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 836.1 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, Citizens Advice needs image optimization as it can save up to 531.0 kB or 39% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 255.2 kB

  • Original 365.8 kB
  • After minification 351.5 kB
  • After compression 110.6 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 255.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 103.5 kB

  • Original 116.7 kB
  • After minification 93.2 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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. Citizensadvice.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 103.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (39%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citizens Advice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

citizensadvice.co.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

citizensadvice.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

SEO Factors

citizensadvice.co.uk SEO score

76

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Citizensadvice.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 Citizensadvice.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 Citizens Advice. 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: