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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

essential.co.uk

Essentials to help you thrive in the modern workplace | Essential

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

619 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

essential.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit essential.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Essential content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about essential.co.uk

Essential Computing’s solutions are designed to help enterprises accelerate their adoption of the Microsoft Modern Workplace and Azure Cloud and quickly adapt to new ways of working.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Essential.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 619 ms and then it took 3.7 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

essential.co.uk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

52/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,940 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

essential.co.uk

619 ms

www.essential.co.uk

703 ms

25306970.js

66 ms

style.min.css

57 ms

style.css

106 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Essential.co.uk, 29% (24 requests) were made to B1802961.smushcdn.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (894 ms) relates to the external source Js-eu1.hsforms.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 320.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Essential.co.uk main page is 1.8 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 311.2 kB

  • Original 359.4 kB
  • After minification 349.6 kB
  • After compression 48.2 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 311.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • 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. Essential images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 209.2 kB
  • After minification 209.2 kB
  • After compression 200.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 59.9 kB
  • After minification 59.9 kB
  • After compression 59.9 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. Essential.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (48%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Essential. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

essential.co.uk

essential.co.uk

619 ms

www.essential.co.uk

www.essential.co.uk

703 ms

25306970.js

25306970.js

66 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

57 ms

style.css

style.css

106 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

87 ms

pum-site-styles.css

pum-site-styles.css

60 ms

ubermenu.min.css

ubermenu.min.css

115 ms

minimal.css

minimal.css

115 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

134 ms

rellax.min.js

rellax.min.js

133 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

133 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

149 ms

css

css

93 ms

collectedforms.js

collectedforms.js

824 ms

leadflows.js

leadflows.js

826 ms

web-interactives-embed.js

web-interactives-embed.js

825 ms

25306970.js

25306970.js

824 ms

25306970.js

25306970.js

824 ms

homepage-banner-scaled.jpg

homepage-banner-scaled.jpg

133 ms

Q0t4gCe5oBE

Q0t4gCe5oBE

383 ms

v2.js

v2.js

894 ms

slick.css

slick.css

123 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

122 ms

v2.js

v2.js

893 ms

navigation.js

navigation.js

122 ms

script.js

script.js

123 ms

scrollspy.min.js

scrollspy.min.js

121 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

142 ms

theme_ajax.js

theme_ajax.js

154 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

376 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

154 ms

pum-site-scripts.js

pum-site-scripts.js

150 ms

ubermenu.min.js

ubermenu.min.js

159 ms

essential-logo-color-01.svg

essential-logo-color-01.svg

407 ms

Essential-Microsoft-365-Logo.svg

Essential-Microsoft-365-Logo.svg

402 ms

Essential-Microsoft-Teams-Logo.svg

Essential-Microsoft-Teams-Logo.svg

406 ms

Essential-Microsoft-Outlook-Logo.svg

Essential-Microsoft-Outlook-Logo.svg

402 ms

Essential-abc-blue.svg

Essential-abc-blue.svg

408 ms

Essential-paper-cloud-new.svg

Essential-paper-cloud-new.svg

407 ms

Essential-tools.svg

Essential-tools.svg

409 ms

Essential-CanalandRiverTrust.png.webp

Essential-CanalandRiverTrust.png.webp

117 ms

Essential-Colart.png

Essential-Colart.png

111 ms

Essential-Fenwick.jpg.webp

Essential-Fenwick.jpg.webp

116 ms

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Essential-Harrods.png.webp

117 ms

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Essential-Jisc.png

116 ms

Essentials-NothingHillsGenesis-1.jpg

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119 ms

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122 ms

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Essential-Renishaw.webp

121 ms

Essential-NHS.png

Essential-NHS.png

119 ms

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Essential-Kent.png.webp

120 ms

Essential-Volvo.png

Essential-Volvo.png

124 ms

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Group-2602.png

124 ms

Essential-TS1070-animation.gif

Essential-TS1070-animation.gif

129 ms

Essential-Teams-SharePoint-sites-breed-like-rabbits.jpg

Essential-Teams-SharePoint-sites-breed-like-rabbits.jpg

134 ms

side-view-cropped-unrecognizable-business-people-working-common-desk-600x401.jpeg

side-view-cropped-unrecognizable-business-people-working-common-desk-600x401.jpeg

130 ms

Essential-security-guard-standing-scanning-door-1.jpg

Essential-security-guard-standing-scanning-door-1.jpg

126 ms

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reception-area-1-600x266.jpg

124 ms

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Essential-meeting-room-naming-conventions-600x297.jpg

125 ms

testimonial_bg-scaled-e1685948447593.jpg

testimonial_bg-scaled-e1685948447593.jpg

301 ms

hot-desk-cta.jpg

hot-desk-cta.jpg

20 ms

journaling-in-Microsoft356-book-pop-up.jpg

journaling-in-Microsoft356-book-pop-up.jpg

21 ms

G-cloud-pop-up-graphic.jpg

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24 ms

Learning-Live-asset-book-pop-up.jpg

Learning-Live-asset-book-pop-up.jpg

25 ms

oboarding-ebook.jpg

oboarding-ebook.jpg

26 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

212 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

47 ms

base.js

base.js

84 ms

css2

css2

45 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

395 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

399 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

434 ms

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343 ms

embed.js

embed.js

106 ms

6149596b4ee4.google-fonts.css

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212 ms

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173 ms

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186 ms

twitter_x_new_logo_x_round_circle_blue_icon-1.svg

twitter_x_new_logo_x_round_circle_blue_icon-1.svg

188 ms

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169 ms

id

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170 ms

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238 ms

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239 ms

6149596b4ee4.google-fonts.css

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60 ms

Accessibility Review

essential.co.uk accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

essential.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

essential.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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

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 Essential.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 Essential.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

essential.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Essential. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: