Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 65

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

connects2.co.uk

Connects2 Ltd

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

255 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

619 ms

connects2.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Connects2.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 255 ms and then it took 4.2 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

connects2.co.uk performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,150 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.209

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

connects2.co.uk

255 ms

connects2.com

685 ms

fbevents.js

23 ms

gtm.js

72 ms

bootstrap.min.css

508 ms

Our browser made a total of 115 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Connects2.co.uk, 72% (83 requests) were made to Connects2.com and 10% (12 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Connects2.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.2 MB (37%)

Content Size

11.5 MB

After Optimization

7.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Connects2.co.uk main page is 11.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 10.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 102.6 kB

  • Original 119.8 kB
  • After minification 79.8 kB
  • After compression 17.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 40.0 kB, which is 33% 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 102.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 3.2 MB

  • Original 10.0 MB
  • After minification 6.8 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. Obviously, Connects2 needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.2 MB or 32% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 412.2 kB

  • Original 734.3 kB
  • After minification 671.2 kB
  • After compression 322.2 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 412.2 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 486.9 kB

  • Original 617.8 kB
  • After minification 514.0 kB
  • After compression 130.9 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. Connects2.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 486.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (38%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

63

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Connects2. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

connects2.co.uk accessibility score

82

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

connects2.co.uk best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

connects2.co.uk SEO score

65

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Connects2.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 Connects2.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 Connects2. 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: