Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

halesgroup.co.uk

Permanent and Temporary jobs in Eastern England and East Anglia | Hales Jobs

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

295 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

190 ms

halesgroup.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Halesgroup.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 295 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

halesgroup.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,440 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

halesgroup.co.uk

295 ms

halesjobs.co.uk

929 ms

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2 ms

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2 ms

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2 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Halesgroup.co.uk, 45% (38 requests) were made to Halesjobs.co.uk and 15% (13 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (929 ms) relates to the external source Halesjobs.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 753.6 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

833.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Halesgroup.co.uk main page is 1.6 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 88.9 kB

  • Original 115.0 kB
  • After minification 114.6 kB
  • After compression 26.1 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 88.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 355.6 kB
  • After minification 338.9 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. Hales Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 647.7 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 394.9 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 647.7 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 178 B

  • Original 74.1 kB
  • After minification 74.1 kB
  • After compression 73.9 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. Halesgroup.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (71%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hales Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

halesgroup.co.uk accessibility score

80

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.

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

halesgroup.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

SEO Factors

halesgroup.co.uk SEO score

79

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Halesgroup.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 Halesgroup.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 Hales Group. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: