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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

hiscox.co.uk

Hiscox UK | Business Insurance, Home Insurance & more

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

146 ms

Resources Loaded

985 ms

Page Rendered

450 ms

hiscox.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hiscox.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 146 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hiscox.co.uk performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value750 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hiscox.co.uk

146 ms

www.hiscox.co.uk

33 ms

www.hiscox.co.uk

56 ms

gtm.js

135 ms

css_8t9rNVir3LTM3TZBWXvamdCJ80vEbc-5sRTBqtZIoe8.css

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Hiscox.co.uk, 10% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (723 ms) relates to the external source Api.feefo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 75.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

426.7 kB

After Optimization

351.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hiscox.co.uk main page is 426.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 231.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 75.3 kB

  • Original 99.8 kB
  • After minification 99.5 kB
  • After compression 24.5 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 75.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 8.9 kB
  • After minification 8.9 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. Hiscox images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 45 B

  • Original 231.6 kB
  • After minification 231.6 kB
  • After compression 231.6 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 86.4 kB
  • After minification 86.4 kB
  • After compression 86.4 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. Hiscox.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (63%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hiscox. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hiscox.co.uk

hiscox.co.uk

146 ms

www.hiscox.co.uk

www.hiscox.co.uk

33 ms

www.hiscox.co.uk

www.hiscox.co.uk

56 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

135 ms

css_8t9rNVir3LTM3TZBWXvamdCJ80vEbc-5sRTBqtZIoe8.css

css_8t9rNVir3LTM3TZBWXvamdCJ80vEbc-5sRTBqtZIoe8.css

22 ms

css_fbGzin4UAxd9W-L3tEXXMyIYamlQFgUeHI9TCpjO0DQ.css

css_fbGzin4UAxd9W-L3tEXXMyIYamlQFgUeHI9TCpjO0DQ.css

49 ms

logo

logo

723 ms

js_nlDhr-PqGm16SyKNyUa0f_WuvbGbnBUZtsyiDw-1VAc.js

js_nlDhr-PqGm16SyKNyUa0f_WuvbGbnBUZtsyiDw-1VAc.js

112 ms

vedd3670a3b1c4e178fdfb0cc912d969e1713874337387

vedd3670a3b1c4e178fdfb0cc912d969e1713874337387

111 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

42 ms

footer-cii-logo.png

footer-cii-logo.png

35 ms

icon--burger.svg

icon--burger.svg

118 ms

icon--close.svg

icon--close.svg

119 ms

lazy-load--placeholder.png

lazy-load--placeholder.png

502 ms

swoosh-homepage.svg

swoosh-homepage.svg

120 ms

icon--search--white.svg

icon--search--white.svg

122 ms

icon--quote.svg

icon--quote.svg

129 ms

footer-red.svg

footer-red.svg

124 ms

footer-black.svg

footer-black.svg

126 ms

icon--twitter-white.svg

icon--twitter-white.svg

127 ms

icon--instagram-white.svg

icon--instagram-white.svg

122 ms

icon--linkedin-white.svg

icon--linkedin-white.svg

129 ms

icon--youtube-white.svg

icon--youtube-white.svg

132 ms

icon--arrow--down--white.svg

icon--arrow--down--white.svg

131 ms

NeueHelvetica75Bold_normal_normal_subset1.woff

NeueHelvetica75Bold_normal_normal_subset1.woff

567 ms

NeueHelvetica55Roman_normal_normal_subset1.woff

NeueHelvetica55Roman_normal_normal_subset1.woff

610 ms

NeueHelvetica45Light_normal_normal_subset1.woff

NeueHelvetica45Light_normal_normal_subset1.woff

598 ms

6290.js

6290.js

101 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

113 ms

32c7db80-9d5f-490a-ae76-44fa02fd78c9.json

32c7db80-9d5f-490a-ae76-44fa02fd78c9.json

47 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

19 ms

Accessibility Review

hiscox.co.uk accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

hiscox.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

hiscox.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Hiscox.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 Hiscox.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

hiscox.co.uk

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