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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

driversgb.com

Driving Lessons in Birmingham | Intensive Driving Courses - Drivers GB

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

486 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

239 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Driversgb.com page load time and found that the first response time was 486 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

driversgb.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.299

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

driversgb.com

486 ms

www.driversgb.com

649 ms

layout.css

192 ms

jquery.min.js

6 ms

buttons.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Driversgb.com, 7% (4 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Driversgb.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 369.6 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Driversgb.com main page is 1.7 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 18.3 kB
  • After minification 14.3 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.9 kB, which is 22% 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 14.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 1.2 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. Drivers GB images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 308.7 kB

  • Original 410.7 kB
  • After minification 368.1 kB
  • After compression 102.0 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 308.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 31.6 kB
  • After minification 30.4 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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. Driversgb.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (34%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Drivers GB. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

driversgb.com

driversgb.com

486 ms

www.driversgb.com

www.driversgb.com

649 ms

layout.css

layout.css

192 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

6 ms

buttons.js

buttons.js

9 ms

diapo.css

diapo.css

221 ms

jquery.mobile-1.0rc2.customized.min.js

jquery.mobile-1.0rc2.customized.min.js

347 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

222 ms

jquery.hoverIntent.minified.js

jquery.hoverIntent.minified.js

222 ms

diapo.js

diapo.js

275 ms

back_grad.png

back_grad.png

94 ms

ga.js

ga.js

69 ms

l-plate.png

l-plate.png

131 ms

getAllAppDefault.esi

getAllAppDefault.esi

80 ms

top_grad.png

top_grad.png

198 ms

top_logo.png

top_logo.png

277 ms

menu_grad.png

menu_grad.png

480 ms

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445 ms

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367 ms

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835 ms

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770 ms

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808 ms

boxes_back_grad.png

boxes_back_grad.png

739 ms

home_box_prices.png

home_box_prices.png

1942 ms

home_box_intensive.png

home_box_intensive.png

1712 ms

home_box_u17.png

home_box_u17.png

1284 ms

home_box_join.png

home_box_join.png

1084 ms

home_box_instructor.png

home_box_instructor.png

1163 ms

footer_grad.png

footer_grad.png

1081 ms

footer_logo.png

footer_logo.png

2266 ms

prev.png

prev.png

1243 ms

next.png

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1311 ms

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1515 ms

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1532 ms

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1570 ms

banner-call-today.jpg

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1981 ms

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2058 ms

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1890 ms

pause.png

pause.png

2046 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

getSegment.php

getSegment.php

11 ms

checkOAuth.esi

checkOAuth.esi

7 ms

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7 ms

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10 ms

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30 ms

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9 ms

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26 ms

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6 ms

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pixel

16 ms

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20 ms

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22 ms

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19 ms

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10 ms

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14 ms

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5 ms

Accessibility Review

driversgb.com accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

driversgb.com 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

driversgb.com SEO score

81

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Driversgb.com 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 Driversgb.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

driversgb.com

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