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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

newcastle.co.uk

Newcastle Building Society | Savings, Mortgages, Newcastle Financial Advisers

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

455 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

716 ms

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About Website

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

Connecting you with a better financial future. Newcastle Building Society, helping communities through savings, mortgages and more for over 150 years.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newcastle.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 455 ms and then it took 2.2 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

newcastle.co.uk performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newcastle.co.uk

455 ms

otSDKStub.js

151 ms

icon

43 ms

styles.css

165 ms

bundle.js

559 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Newcastle.co.uk, 50% (14 requests) were made to Assets-eu-01.kc-usercontent.com and 11% (3 requests) were made to Cdn-ukwest.onetrust.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (692 ms) belongs to the original domain Newcastle.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 208.1 kB (23%)

Content Size

895.3 kB

After Optimization

687.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Newcastle.co.uk main page is 895.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 365.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 156.2 kB

  • Original 178.3 kB
  • After minification 124.3 kB
  • After compression 22.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 54.0 kB, which is 30% 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 156.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 365.5 kB
  • After minification 354.1 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. Newcastle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 22.5 kB

  • Original 277.4 kB
  • After minification 277.4 kB
  • After compression 254.8 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

-24%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 74.1 kB
  • After minification 74.1 kB
  • After compression 56.1 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. Newcastle.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.0 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (25%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Newcastle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

newcastle.co.uk

newcastle.co.uk

455 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

151 ms

icon

icon

43 ms

styles.css

styles.css

165 ms

bundle.js

bundle.js

559 ms

a5c34a37-b983-4a3a-9a8e-bdfc3bc77ace.json

a5c34a37-b983-4a3a-9a8e-bdfc3bc77ace.json

50 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

84 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

54 ms

Banner%20-%20Donna%20Brown%20-%20Sunderland%20BM.jpg

Banner%20-%20Donna%20Brown%20-%20Sunderland%20BM.jpg

20 ms

NBS_South_Shields-41-390x270%20%282%29.webp

NBS_South_Shields-41-390x270%20%282%29.webp

21 ms

NBS%20Gosforth-15.webp

NBS%20Gosforth-15.webp

29 ms

iStock-1224807206.webp

iStock-1224807206.webp

30 ms

Banner%20-%20Remortgage%20family%20-%20WMA%202024.jpg

Banner%20-%20Remortgage%20family%20-%20WMA%202024.jpg

32 ms

Thumbnail%20-%20What%20Mortgage%20Awards-%202024.jpg

Thumbnail%20-%20What%20Mortgage%20Awards-%202024.jpg

28 ms

Thumbnail%20-%20Branch%20-%20Darlington.jpg

Thumbnail%20-%20Branch%20-%20Darlington.jpg

28 ms

Thumbnail%20-%20News%20-%20North%20Shields%20YMCA%20Branch%20CGI.jpg

Thumbnail%20-%20News%20-%20North%20Shields%20YMCA%20Branch%20CGI.jpg

30 ms

fscs-logo-mobile.png

fscs-logo-mobile.png

35 ms

facebook_white_fill.svg

facebook_white_fill.svg

32 ms

logo-white.png

logo-white.png

36 ms

Instagram.svg

Instagram.svg

34 ms

LinkedIn.svg

LinkedIn.svg

32 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

69 ms

329746577f94a4f1785e.otf

329746577f94a4f1785e.otf

159 ms

f58d53eb72d7239d4ca8.otf

f58d53eb72d7239d4ca8.otf

552 ms

646125bcea63d2cce320.otf

646125bcea63d2cce320.otf

692 ms

font

font

22 ms

js

js

41 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

18 ms

Accessibility Review

newcastle.co.uk accessibility score

91

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.

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

Best Practices

newcastle.co.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

newcastle.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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 Newcastle.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 Newcastle.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

newcastle.co.uk

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