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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

counselling-direct.co.uk

Counselling Direct (Formerly Birmingham Counselling & Psychotherapy Centre) | Counselling, Well-Being & Psychological Support for Individuals and Orga...

Page Load Speed

10.2 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

8 sec

Page Rendered

191 ms

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About Website

Welcome to counselling-direct.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Counselling Direct best content right away, or after learning these important things about counselling-direct.co.uk

Birmingham Counselling & Therapy. No waiting list. Open 7 days a week. Bereavement, anxiety, marriage, depression, anger management, online counselling & more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Counselling-direct.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 8.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

counselling-direct.co.uk performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.14

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.counselling-direct.co.uk

2021 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

163 ms

style.min.css

352 ms

classic-themes.min.css

273 ms

style.css

453 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Counselling-direct.co.uk, 23% (13 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 21% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Counselling-direct.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 677.8 kB (33%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Counselling-direct.co.uk main page is 2.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 42.4 kB

  • Original 53.4 kB
  • After minification 51.6 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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 42.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 72.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Counselling Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 306.8 kB

  • Original 412.0 kB
  • After minification 322.6 kB
  • After compression 105.1 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 306.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 256.2 kB

  • Original 293.4 kB
  • After minification 249.7 kB
  • After compression 37.2 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. Counselling-direct.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 256.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (81%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Counselling Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.counselling-direct.co.uk

www.counselling-direct.co.uk

2021 ms

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163 ms

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352 ms

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273 ms

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453 ms

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274 ms

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Accessibility Review

counselling-direct.co.uk accessibility score

92

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

counselling-direct.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

SEO Factors

counselling-direct.co.uk SEO score

95

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 Counselling-direct.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 Counselling-direct.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

counselling-direct.co.uk

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