Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

gousto.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

393 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gousto.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 174 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

gousto.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,160 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gousto.co.uk

174 ms

www.gousto.co.uk

612 ms

3732210624.js

260 ms

application.114717a7.css

84 ms

css

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Gousto.co.uk, 13% (15 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net and 12% (14 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (871 ms) relates to the external source Api.segment.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (58%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Gousto.co.uk main page is 3.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 191.8 kB

  • Original 242.1 kB
  • After minification 235.3 kB
  • After compression 50.3 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 191.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 538.7 kB
  • After minification 532.9 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. Gousto images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 621.2 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 1.3 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 202.7 kB

  • Original 244.1 kB
  • After minification 243.9 kB
  • After compression 41.4 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. Gousto.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 202.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (60%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gousto. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gousto.co.uk accessibility score

77

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

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.

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

gousto.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gousto.co.uk SEO score

97

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gousto.co.uk 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 Gousto.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 data is detected on the main page of Gousto. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: