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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

nie.co.uk

Network company for connections, meter reading, outage updates | Northern Ireland Electricity Networks

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

185 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

756 ms

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About Website

Welcome to nie.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Nie best content right away, or after learning these important things about nie.co.uk

NIE Networks owns the electricity transmission and distribution network. View a list of suppliers or the utility regulator website.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nie.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 185 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nie.co.uk performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,660 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.595

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nie.co.uk

185 ms

www.nienetworks.co.uk

582 ms

home

703 ms

vendor.min.js

43 ms

main.min.css

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nie.co.uk, 48% (33 requests) were made to Nienetworks.co.uk and 6% (4 requests) were made to Browsealoud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Nienetworks.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 979.2 kB (24%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nie.co.uk main page is 4.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 48.8 kB

  • Original 67.4 kB
  • After minification 61.4 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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 48.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 925.0 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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, Nie needs image optimization as it can save up to 925.0 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 312.9 kB
  • After minification 312.9 kB
  • After compression 308.6 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 58.7 kB
  • After minification 58.7 kB
  • After compression 57.6 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. Nie.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (57%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nie. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nie.co.uk

nie.co.uk

185 ms

www.nienetworks.co.uk

www.nienetworks.co.uk

582 ms

home

home

703 ms

vendor.min.js

vendor.min.js

43 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

85 ms

additional.min.css

additional.min.css

89 ms

aos.css

aos.css

53 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

88 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

96 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

94 ms

css2

css2

51 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

98 ms

aos.js

aos.js

59 ms

jquery.main.min.js

jquery.main.min.js

113 ms

jquery.additional.min.js

jquery.additional.min.js

108 ms

nie.modal.v2.js

nie.modal.v2.js

110 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

70 ms

ba.js

ba.js

42 ms

foundation.min.css

foundation.min.css

50 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

245 ms

xfbml.customerchat.js

xfbml.customerchat.js

278 ms

wave-deep.png

wave-deep.png

213 ms

NIE-Logo-n.png

NIE-Logo-n.png

212 ms

video.jpg.aspx

video.jpg.aspx

214 ms

article-1.jpg.aspx

article-1.jpg.aspx

212 ms

card-wave-white.png

card-wave-white.png

213 ms

article.jpg.aspx

article.jpg.aspx

212 ms

pic-4.jpg.aspx

pic-4.jpg.aspx

349 ms

safety-square.jpg.aspx

safety-square.jpg.aspx

269 ms

priority-services.jpg.aspx

priority-services.jpg.aspx

270 ms

wind-turbines-futuristic800x500.jpg.aspx

wind-turbines-futuristic800x500.jpg.aspx

270 ms

attachment.aspx

attachment.aspx

1293 ms

attachment.aspx

attachment.aspx

350 ms

attachment.aspx

attachment.aspx

679 ms

form-mag.png

form-mag.png

349 ms

font

font

211 ms

icomoon.ttf

icomoon.ttf

348 ms

font.woff

font.woff

602 ms

version.json

version.json

83 ms

nie-worker-bg.jpg.aspx

nie-worker-bg.jpg.aspx

767 ms

green-future-bg-large.jpg.aspx

green-future-bg-large.jpg.aspx

635 ms

nie-workers-bg.jpg.aspx

nie-workers-bg.jpg.aspx

716 ms

hero-home.jpg.aspx

hero-home.jpg.aspx

587 ms

www.nienetworks.co.uk.js

www.nienetworks.co.uk.js

156 ms

js

js

180 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

428 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

479 ms

uwt.js

uwt.js

410 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

86 ms

hk7s4yi5nv

hk7s4yi5nv

473 ms

consenTag.js

consenTag.js

488 ms

431 ms

sri-directives.json

sri-directives.json

414 ms

collect

collect

34 ms

collect

collect

53 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

20 ms

adsct

adsct

128 ms

adsct

adsct

96 ms

popup_silent.html

popup_silent.html

10 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

46 ms

mustache.min.js

mustache.min.js

69 ms

getuam

getuam

52 ms

ba.js

ba.js

431 ms

integration

integration

51 ms

spp.pl

spp.pl

20 ms

ba-library.min.js

ba-library.min.js

6 ms

ba-library-ui.min.js

ba-library-ui.min.js

18 ms

uKDPIn.js

uKDPIn.js

287 ms

c.gif

c.gif

8 ms

Accessibility Review

nie.co.uk accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

nie.co.uk best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

nie.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Nie.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 Nie.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

nie.co.uk

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