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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

i-c-w.co.uk

Building Warranty Specialists | ICW Insurance Services

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

343 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed I-c-w.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 343 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

i-c-w.co.uk performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,530 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.1

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

i-c-w.co.uk

343 ms

i-c-w.co.uk

662 ms

app.434e8637.min.css

81 ms

app.4ffb702e.min.css

160 ms

gtm.js

178 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original I-c-w.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Bat.bing.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain I-c-w.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 201.5 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of I-c-w.co.uk main page is 1.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 55.0 kB

  • Original 65.6 kB
  • After minification 58.3 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.4 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 55.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 128.0 kB

  • Original 1.3 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. ICW images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 14.6 kB
  • After minification 14.6 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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

-67%

Potential reduce by 18.5 kB

  • Original 27.8 kB
  • After minification 11.4 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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. I-c-w.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (9%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ICW. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

i-c-w.co.uk

i-c-w.co.uk

343 ms

i-c-w.co.uk

i-c-w.co.uk

662 ms

app.434e8637.min.css

app.434e8637.min.css

81 ms

app.4ffb702e.min.css

app.4ffb702e.min.css

160 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

178 ms

bat.js

bat.js

139 ms

tracking.js

tracking.js

88 ms

icw-logo.svg

icw-logo.svg

96 ms

search-icon.svg

search-icon.svg

96 ms

down-arrow.svg

down-arrow.svg

169 ms

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anthony-esau-N2zk9yXjmLA-unsplash-2.jpg

283 ms

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michele-bitetto-84ZA1jFsfzM-unsplash.jpg

366 ms

shutterstock_667100452.jpg

shutterstock_667100452.jpg

357 ms

fons-heijnsbroek-4xLxkDeiJC0-unsplash.jpg

fons-heijnsbroek-4xLxkDeiJC0-unsplash.jpg

430 ms

shutterstock_1654831870.jpg

shutterstock_1654831870.jpg

366 ms

shutterstock_572499661.jpg

shutterstock_572499661.jpg

363 ms

Group-2221.png

Group-2221.png

789 ms

Layer-5.svg

Layer-5.svg

467 ms

Layer-2.svg

Layer-2.svg

469 ms

Layer-3.svg

Layer-3.svg

468 ms

Layer-4.svg

Layer-4.svg

475 ms

House.svg

House.svg

550 ms

Key.svg

Key.svg

578 ms

Building.svg

Building.svg

574 ms

ICW-FMBI-photoweb.jpg

ICW-FMBI-photoweb.jpg

585 ms

Exhibition-Designs_Generic-copy-2.png

Exhibition-Designs_Generic-copy-2.png

670 ms

Member-Spotight-ICW.jpg

Member-Spotight-ICW.jpg

665 ms

CIOB-ICW-web-2.jpg

CIOB-ICW-web-2.jpg

771 ms

technical-manual.jpg

technical-manual.jpg

683 ms

Showcase_ICW.jpg

Showcase_ICW.jpg

703 ms

ICW-Warranty-Client-Portal-Devices-02_201120_113940@2x-1-copy.png

ICW-Warranty-Client-Portal-Devices-02_201120_113940@2x-1-copy.png

876 ms

daria-pimkina-tYaccl19A3Q-unsplash_2023-01-27-013729_xqkp.png

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934 ms

footer-links-arrow.svg

footer-links-arrow.svg

759 ms

footer-map-graphic.svg

footer-map-graphic.svg

1021 ms

Gotham-Book.70bce74d.min.woff

Gotham-Book.70bce74d.min.woff

835 ms

Gotham-Medium.e8183507.min.otf

Gotham-Medium.e8183507.min.otf

998 ms

Gotham-Light.eb5f2c35.min.otf

Gotham-Light.eb5f2c35.min.otf

863 ms

22006382.js

22006382.js

22 ms

Accessibility Review

i-c-w.co.uk accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

i-c-w.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

SEO Factors

i-c-w.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 I-c-w.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 I-c-w.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

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