Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

lawyer-guide.co.uk

Lawyer Guide - Find solicitors in our directory

Page Load Speed

20.6 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

20.2 sec

Page Rendered

184 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lawyer-guide.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 20.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 2 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

lawyer-guide.co.uk performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.068

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.lawyer-guide.co.uk

170 ms

style.css

70 ms

google_service.js

9 ms

headernew.png

42 ms

LD_woman_child_250x250.jpg

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Lawyer-guide.co.uk, 17% (4 requests) were made to Contactlaw.co.uk and 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.8 sec) relates to the external source Contactlaw.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 43.1 kB (41%)

Content Size

106.4 kB

After Optimization

63.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Lawyer-guide.co.uk main page is 106.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 54.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 42.4 kB

  • Original 54.8 kB
  • After minification 47.9 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 6.9 kB, which is 13% 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 42.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 596 B

  • Original 33.4 kB
  • After minification 32.8 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. Lawyer Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 55 B

  • Original 17.5 kB
  • After minification 17.5 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 55 B

  • Original 602 B
  • After minification 602 B
  • After compression 547 B

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. Lawyer-guide.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (53%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lawyer Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lawyer-guide.co.uk accessibility score

51

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

lawyer-guide.co.uk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

lawyer-guide.co.uk SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lawyer-guide.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Lawyer-guide.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 description is not detected on the main page of Lawyer Guide. 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: