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Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

comparethebox.com

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

260 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

280 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Comparethebox.com page load time and found that the first response time was 260 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

comparethebox.com performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.208

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.0 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

comparethebox.com

260 ms

www.comparethebox.com

956 ms

style.css

98 ms

ajax.js

182 ms

addthis_widget.js

11 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Comparethebox.com, 13% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (956 ms) belongs to the original domain Comparethebox.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 519.1 kB (59%)

Content Size

883.1 kB

After Optimization

364.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Comparethebox.com main page is 883.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 464.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 60.2 kB

  • Original 83.4 kB
  • After minification 82.6 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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 60.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 168.1 kB

  • Original 322.6 kB
  • After minification 154.6 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, Comparethebox needs image optimization as it can save up to 168.1 kB or 52% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 280.5 kB

  • Original 464.2 kB
  • After minification 464.1 kB
  • After compression 183.7 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 280.5 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 12.9 kB
  • After minification 10.6 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. Comparethebox.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (43%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Comparethebox. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

comparethebox.com

comparethebox.com

260 ms

www.comparethebox.com

www.comparethebox.com

956 ms

style.css

style.css

98 ms

ajax.js

ajax.js

182 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

11 ms

counter.js

counter.js

13 ms

reset.css

reset.css

95 ms

wrapper.png

wrapper.png

165 ms

logo.png

logo.png

163 ms

navbg.png

navbg.png

206 ms

tabs.png

tabs.png

206 ms

vehicle.png

vehicle.png

434 ms

tick.png

tick.png

207 ms

ajax.php

ajax.php

837 ms

comparenow.png

comparenow.png

185 ms

fullstory.png

fullstory.png

293 ms

seeproducts.png

seeproducts.png

293 ms

arrow.png

arrow.png

291 ms

ga.js

ga.js

36 ms

t.php

t.php

170 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

79 ms

all.js&version=v2.0

all.js&version=v2.0

468 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

8 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

101 ms

counter.5524cceca805eb4b9b2b.js

counter.5524cceca805eb4b9b2b.js

63 ms

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87 ms

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__utm.gif

67 ms

button.0308b81ff1714e446f674b5b9793f2cd.js

button.0308b81ff1714e446f674b5b9793f2cd.js

81 ms

shares.json

shares.json

66 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

60 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

59 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

117 ms

tweet_button.b9740740e0bcf9b0657c5b11bd4388da.en.html

tweet_button.b9740740e0bcf9b0657c5b11bd4388da.en.html

17 ms

pixel

pixel

59 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

74 ms

pixel

pixel

26 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

23 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

21 ms

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W5F8_SL0XFawnjxHGsZjJA.ttf

45 ms

pixel

pixel

18 ms

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23 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

35 ms

jot

jot

86 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

4 ms

136 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

128 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

257 ms

ping

ping

55 ms

like.php

like.php

90 ms

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187 ms

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279 ms

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276 ms

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295 ms

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331 ms

Accessibility Review

comparethebox.com accessibility score

63

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

comparethebox.com 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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

comparethebox.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Comparethebox.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Comparethebox.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

comparethebox.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Comparethebox. 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: