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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

lcu.org.uk

Liberty Credit Union | Savings and loans designed for you

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

448 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

192 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lcu.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 448 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lcu.org.uk performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

72/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lcu.org.uk

448 ms

css

27 ms

global.css

131 ms

style.min.css

242 ms

front.min.css

312 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Lcu.org.uk, 15% (3 requests) were made to Lcu3.live-website.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (992 ms) relates to the external source Lcu3.live-website.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 94.5 kB (23%)

Content Size

415.3 kB

After Optimization

320.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lcu.org.uk main page is 415.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 249.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 71.5 kB

  • Original 88.6 kB
  • After minification 88.1 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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 71.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 249.3 kB
  • After minification 239.5 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. Lcu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 68.8 kB
  • After minification 68.8 kB
  • After compression 57.7 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 11.2 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 8.5 kB
  • After minification 8.5 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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. Lcu.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.0 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (53%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lcu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lcu.org.uk

lcu.org.uk

448 ms

css

css

27 ms

global.css

global.css

131 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

242 ms

front.min.css

front.min.css

312 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

459 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

316 ms

circle-progress.js

circle-progress.js

327 ms

global.js

global.js

327 ms

interactivity.min.js

interactivity.min.js

370 ms

view.min.js

view.min.js

424 ms

front.min.js

front.min.js

424 ms

forms.js

forms.js

443 ms

Img_0686-1024x768.jpg

Img_0686-1024x768.jpg

776 ms

twitter_follow_us2.png

twitter_follow_us2.png

884 ms

facebook_like_us2.png

facebook_like_us2.png

992 ms

header3.jpg

header3.jpg

315 ms

businessman-2056031_960_720-300x178-1.jpg

businessman-2056031_960_720-300x178-1.jpg

121 ms

play-barking-and-dagenham-lottery-thumb-212x300-1.jpg

play-barking-and-dagenham-lottery-thumb-212x300-1.jpg

144 ms

FSCS-Logo.jpg

FSCS-Logo.jpg

193 ms

Accessibility Review

lcu.org.uk accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

lcu.org.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

lcu.org.uk SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Lcu.org.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 Lcu.org.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

lcu.org.uk

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