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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

mxtools.co.uk

MX Tools the SMTP Solutions Provider

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

242 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

216 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing MX Tools content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mxtools.co.uk

MX Tools and SMTP Service Provider. Providing outgoing SMTP mail relay and smarthost services using SMTPAuth cloud based solutions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mxtools.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 242 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mxtools.co.uk performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.062

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mxtools.co.uk

242 ms

www.mxtools.co.uk

516 ms

bootstrap.min.css

93 ms

bootstrap-responsive.min.css

181 ms

bootstrap-extended.css

264 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Mxtools.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (639 ms) belongs to the original domain Mxtools.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 76.7 kB (27%)

Content Size

279.3 kB

After Optimization

202.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mxtools.co.uk main page is 279.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 144.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 28.8 kB
  • After minification 25.2 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 3.6 kB, which is 12% 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 22.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 70.8 kB
  • After minification 56.0 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. Obviously, MX Tools needs image optimization as it can save up to 14.8 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 37.6 kB

  • Original 144.3 kB
  • After minification 144.2 kB
  • After compression 106.7 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 37.6 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 35.4 kB
  • After minification 35.4 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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. Mxtools.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (72%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MX Tools. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mxtools.co.uk

mxtools.co.uk

242 ms

www.mxtools.co.uk

www.mxtools.co.uk

516 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

93 ms

bootstrap-responsive.min.css

bootstrap-responsive.min.css

181 ms

bootstrap-extended.css

bootstrap-extended.css

264 ms

btcontentslider.css

btcontentslider.css

258 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

346 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

jquery-noconflict.js

254 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

259 ms

caption.js

caption.js

268 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

364 ms

jquery.ui.core.min.js

jquery.ui.core.min.js

363 ms

slides.js

slides.js

392 ms

default.js

default.js

362 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

362 ms

jquery.slicknav.min.js

jquery.slicknav.min.js

450 ms

jquery.scrollTo.min.js

jquery.scrollTo.min.js

453 ms

tabaliser.js

tabaliser.js

453 ms

top-link.js

top-link.js

451 ms

slicknav.css

slicknav.css

446 ms

tabaliser.css

tabaliser.css

445 ms

custom.css

custom.css

551 ms

dns-spf.css

dns-spf.css

554 ms

highlight.pack.js

highlight.pack.js

639 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

557 ms

css

css

29 ms

css

css

44 ms

cookieaccept.css

cookieaccept.css

543 ms

cookieaccept.js

cookieaccept.js

627 ms

customise-www.js

customise-www.js

631 ms

404

404

165 ms

tabaliser-advert-mxo.png

tabaliser-advert-mxo.png

187 ms

tabalizer-left.png

tabalizer-left.png

126 ms

tabalizer-right-expand.png

tabalizer-right-expand.png

107 ms

mx-tools-logo.png

mx-tools-logo.png

107 ms

rightlogo.jpg

rightlogo.jpg

100 ms

feature-gradient.png

feature-gradient.png

108 ms

social-facebook-button-blue-icon-32x32.png

social-facebook-button-blue-icon-32x32.png

201 ms

social-twitter-button-blue-icon-32x32.png

social-twitter-button-blue-icon-32x32.png

197 ms

social-rss-button-orange-icon-32x32.png

social-rss-button-orange-icon-32x32.png

199 ms

row2-tick-small.png

row2-tick-small.png

183 ms

row1-gradient.png

row1-gradient.png

181 ms

email-with-green-tick-small.png

email-with-green-tick-small.png

254 ms

row2-gradient.png

row2-gradient.png

271 ms

footer-gradient.png

footer-gradient.png

274 ms

font

font

89 ms

font

font

107 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

82 ms

re-left.png

re-left.png

193 ms

re-right.png

re-right.png

195 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

js

js

68 ms

Accessibility Review

mxtools.co.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

mxtools.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

mxtools.co.uk SEO score

90

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

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 Mxtools.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 Mxtools.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

mxtools.co.uk

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