Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

gatehousebank.com

UK Ethical Banking, Savings & Finance | Gatehouse Bank plc

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

58 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

425 ms

gatehousebank.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Gatehouse Bank content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gatehousebank.com

Gatehouse Bank is a pioneering UK Bank offering Shariah-compliant ethical savings, home finance, Buy-to-Let finance and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gatehousebank.com page load time and found that the first response time was 58 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gatehousebank.com performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.8 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gatehousebank.com

58 ms

personal

217 ms

gatehouse.min.css

228 ms

css

39 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Gatehousebank.com, 21% (9 requests) were made to Images.gatehousebank.com and 12% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (747 ms) relates to the external source Images.gatehousebank.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 34.6 kB (48%)

Content Size

72.4 kB

After Optimization

37.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Gatehousebank.com main page is 72.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 36.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 33.3 kB

  • Original 36.0 kB
  • After minification 2.7 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, Gatehouse Bank needs image optimization as it can save up to 33.3 kB or 93% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 36.4 kB
  • After minification 36.4 kB
  • After compression 35.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (43%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gatehouse Bank. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gatehousebank.com accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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

gatehousebank.com 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

gatehousebank.com SEO score

89

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gatehousebank.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Gatehousebank.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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