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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

investing.co.uk

How to Start Trading and Investing Online in the UK

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

470 ms

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About Website

Visit investing.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Investing content for Pakistan and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about investing.co.uk

The leading UK investing and trading guide since 1996. How to start trading online in the UK with broker comparisons, tutorials and helpful tips.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Investing.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

investing.co.uk performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

investing.co.uk

170 ms

investing.co.uk

367 ms

www.investing.co.uk

535 ms

style.css

83 ms

style.min.css

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Investing.co.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (535 ms) belongs to the original domain Investing.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 165.6 kB (60%)

Content Size

277.7 kB

After Optimization

112.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Investing.co.uk main page is 277.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 196.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 161.4 kB

  • Original 196.4 kB
  • After minification 175.3 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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 21.1 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 161.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 39.7 kB
  • After minification 36.5 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. Investing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 919 B

  • Original 20.6 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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. Investing.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (20%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Investing. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

investing.co.uk

investing.co.uk

170 ms

investing.co.uk

investing.co.uk

367 ms

www.investing.co.uk

www.investing.co.uk

535 ms

style.css

style.css

83 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

167 ms

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

331 ms

bootstrap-3.3.7.min.js

bootstrap-3.3.7.min.js

270 ms

investing.js

investing.js

270 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

34 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

32 ms

5-stars-empty-180x32.png

5-stars-empty-180x32.png

130 ms

5-stars-full-180x32.png

5-stars-full-180x32.png

130 ms

cfd-icon.png

cfd-icon.png

131 ms

forex-icon.png

forex-icon.png

158 ms

bitcoin-icon.png

bitcoin-icon.png

225 ms

stocks-icon.png

stocks-icon.png

225 ms

social-trading-icon.png

social-trading-icon.png

225 ms

day-trading-icon.png

day-trading-icon.png

226 ms

XTB-logo-130x80.png

XTB-logo-130x80.png

225 ms

cmc-130x80-1.png

cmc-130x80-1.png

262 ms

Eightcap-logo.jpg

Eightcap-logo.jpg

290 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

js

js

91 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

21 ms

Accessibility Review

investing.co.uk accessibility score

97

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

investing.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

investing.co.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Investing.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 Investing.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

investing.co.uk

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