Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

pensionmonster.com

Pension calculator - use Pension Monster to work out your state pension age, pension contributions & savings needed to achieve your retirement goals.

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

295 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

99 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pensionmonster.com page load time and found that the first response time was 295 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pensionmonster.com performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pensionmonster.com

295 ms

pensionmonster.com

318 ms

font-awesome.min.css

36 ms

css

39 ms

normalize.css

78 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Pensionmonster.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (611 ms) belongs to the original domain Pensionmonster.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 153.8 kB (34%)

Content Size

449.9 kB

After Optimization

296.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Pensionmonster.com main page is 449.9 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. Images take 229.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 8.5 kB
  • After minification 7.0 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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 1.5 kB, which is 18% 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 6.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 229.1 kB
  • After minification 209.9 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. Pension Monster images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 70.2 kB

  • Original 141.6 kB
  • After minification 114.3 kB
  • After compression 71.4 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 70.2 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 58.4 kB

  • Original 70.7 kB
  • After minification 45.7 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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. Pensionmonster.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 58.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (50%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pension Monster. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pensionmonster.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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

pensionmonster.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

pensionmonster.com SEO score

83

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 doesn't use 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 Pensionmonster.com 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 Pensionmonster.com 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

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