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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

uk.ishares.com

Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) | iShares UK – BlackRock

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

164 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

222 ms

uk.ishares.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uk.ishares.com page load time and found that the first response time was 164 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uk.ishares.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,590 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.252

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

site-entry-new

164 ms

minified-fa5ae3e42ec4aa8939d319caf7e1a8f9.css

7 ms

minified-31e530795feaf61c2ba082b063667349.css

26 ms

minified-a4414690320b663800d5f51166345dba.css

20 ms

minified-edf51ab4a04cb8463efcb71085da3eba.js

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Uk.ishares.com, 16% (7 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com and 11% (5 requests) were made to Assets.blackrock.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (204 ms) relates to the external source Ishares.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (70%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

624.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Uk.ishares.com main page is 2.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 95.5 kB

  • Original 128.2 kB
  • After minification 127.8 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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 95.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 83.2 kB
  • After minification 74.5 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. UK IShares images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 832.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 415.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 832.3 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 524.6 kB

  • Original 626.6 kB
  • After minification 626.5 kB
  • After compression 102.0 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. Uk.ishares.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 524.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (55%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UK IShares. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

site-entry-new

site-entry-new

164 ms

minified-fa5ae3e42ec4aa8939d319caf7e1a8f9.css

minified-fa5ae3e42ec4aa8939d319caf7e1a8f9.css

7 ms

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minified-31e530795feaf61c2ba082b063667349.css

26 ms

minified-a4414690320b663800d5f51166345dba.css

minified-a4414690320b663800d5f51166345dba.css

20 ms

minified-edf51ab4a04cb8463efcb71085da3eba.js

minified-edf51ab4a04cb8463efcb71085da3eba.js

66 ms

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minified-cc8a237d0735a0372a6bfbdb4f731d3d.js

170 ms

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minified-d6c37ddd156dcd6f200f351f98c6fc2a.js

169 ms

minified-a1150f77aed05555589af9c7108e9de1.js

minified-a1150f77aed05555589af9c7108e9de1.js

175 ms

utag.js

utag.js

202 ms

logo_ishares.png

logo_ishares.png

202 ms

high-yield-homepage-banner-650-324.jpg

high-yield-homepage-banner-650-324.jpg

187 ms

investor-guide-uk-rc-70x70--web.jpg

investor-guide-uk-rc-70x70--web.jpg

187 ms

ishares-i-cafe-325x250.jpg

ishares-i-cafe-325x250.jpg

187 ms

ishares_logo_148x61--web.jpg

ishares_logo_148x61--web.jpg

189 ms

blk-one-sprite-icons.png

blk-one-sprite-icons.png

190 ms

sprite-flags.png

sprite-flags.png

188 ms

light-touch-magnifying-glass.png

light-touch-magnifying-glass.png

191 ms

blk_one_megamenu_divider.png

blk_one_megamenu_divider.png

188 ms

blk-sprite-icons.png

blk-sprite-icons.png

189 ms

ishares-logo-footer.png

ishares-logo-footer.png

189 ms

lineto-akkurat-pro-regular.woff

lineto-akkurat-pro-regular.woff

189 ms

quick-finder.ajx

quick-finder.ajx

204 ms

ui-anim_basic_16x16.gif

ui-anim_basic_16x16.gif

51 ms

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13 ms

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13 ms

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35 ms

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8 ms

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11 ms

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utag.18.js

9 ms

utag.19.js

utag.19.js

9 ms

ga.js

ga.js

28 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

16 ms

ebOneTag.js

ebOneTag.js

14 ms

LightningBolt.js

LightningBolt.js

86 ms

Serving

Serving

78 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

53 ms

collect

collect

67 ms

utag.js

utag.js

96 ms

x71.html

x71.html

45 ms

qf-gray-right.png

qf-gray-right.png

8 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

32 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

40 ms

imp

imp

10 ms

utag.js

utag.js

27 ms

Accessibility Review

uk.ishares.com accessibility score

80

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

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

uk.ishares.com 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

uk.ishares.com 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

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 Uk.ishares.com 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 Uk.ishares.com 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

uk.ishares.com

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