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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

loantalk.co.uk

Loan Talk - For second charge mortgage intermediary news

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

452 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

285 ms

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About Website

Visit loantalk.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Loan Talk content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about loantalk.co.uk

Loan Talk focusses on the second charge mortgage market, aiming to inform intermediaries by bringing you the latest news, features and industry analysis daily. Loan Talk covers exclusive lender produc...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Loantalk.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 452 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

loantalk.co.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,660 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.113

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

loantalk.co.uk

452 ms

reset.css

241 ms

style.css

544 ms

ffcc00.css

241 ms

nivo-default.css

245 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Loantalk.co.uk, 14% (12 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Loantalk.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 603.6 kB (28%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Loantalk.co.uk 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 61.9 kB

  • Original 69.2 kB
  • After minification 26.1 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 43.1 kB, which is 62% 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 61.9 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 485.5 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Obviously, Loan Talk needs image optimization as it can save up to 485.5 kB or 30% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 51.1 kB

  • Original 358.9 kB
  • After minification 358.7 kB
  • After compression 307.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 51.1 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 84.5 kB
  • After minification 84.5 kB
  • After compression 79.5 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. Loantalk.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (61%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Loan Talk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

loantalk.co.uk

loantalk.co.uk

452 ms

reset.css

reset.css

241 ms

style.css

style.css

544 ms

ffcc00.css

ffcc00.css

241 ms

nivo-default.css

nivo-default.css

245 ms

nivo-slider.css

nivo-slider.css

243 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

522 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

667 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

789 ms

custom2.js

custom2.js

473 ms

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twitter.js

471 ms

tabs.js

tabs.js

703 ms

slides.min.jquery.js

slides.min.jquery.js

703 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

848 ms

hoverIntent.js

hoverIntent.js

778 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

897 ms

scrolltopcontrol.js

scrolltopcontrol.js

931 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

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1023 ms

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1013 ms

swfobject.js

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1017 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

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1076 ms

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1125 ms

jquery.kwicks-1.5.1.pack.js

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1156 ms

mosaic.1.0.1.js

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1240 ms

jquery.tipsy.js

jquery.tipsy.js

1241 ms

jquery.quicksand.js

jquery.quicksand.js

1353 ms

jquery.tablesorter.js

jquery.tablesorter.js

1409 ms

jquery.mousewheel.js

jquery.mousewheel.js

1357 ms

jquery.contentcarousel.js

jquery.contentcarousel.js

1412 ms

jquery.vaccordion.js

jquery.vaccordion.js

1504 ms

flexslider.js

flexslider.js

1478 ms

css

css

36 ms

css

css

53 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

1601 ms

swfobject_modified.js

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1716 ms

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1012 ms

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307 ms

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132 ms

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1023 ms

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804 ms

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1107 ms

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1106 ms

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1106 ms

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1398 ms

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1397 ms

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1396 ms

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1478 ms

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1478 ms

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83 ms

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37 ms

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2070 ms

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47 ms

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53 ms

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2050 ms

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210 ms

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706 ms

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2033 ms

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652 ms

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7 ms

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38 ms

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125 ms

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728 ms

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507 ms

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221 ms

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477 ms

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212 ms

Create

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731 ms

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533 ms

Accessibility Review

loantalk.co.uk accessibility score

56

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

loantalk.co.uk best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

loantalk.co.uk SEO score

58

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Loantalk.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 Loantalk.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

loantalk.co.uk

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