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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

pensions-expert.com

Pensions Expert - News, analysis and comment on UK workplace pension schemes

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

189 ms

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About Website

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News analysis, case studies and informed comment on the challenges facing UK pension schemes, from Pensions Expert, a DG Publishing service.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pensions-expert.com page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pensions-expert.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,990 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pensions-expert.com

33 ms

www.pensions-expert.com

178 ms

www.pensions-expert.com

618 ms

gpt.js

51 ms

js

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Pensions-expert.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (618 ms) belongs to the original domain Pensions-expert.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 447.2 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

800.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pensions-expert.com main page is 1.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 937.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 50.2 kB

  • Original 60.4 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 20.6 kB, which is 34% 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 50.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 46.7 kB

  • Original 216.6 kB
  • After minification 169.9 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. Obviously, Pensions Expert needs image optimization as it can save up to 46.7 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 342.7 kB

  • Original 937.9 kB
  • After minification 937.9 kB
  • After compression 595.3 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 342.7 kB or 37% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 32.5 kB
  • After minification 32.5 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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. Pensions-expert.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.7 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (35%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pensions Expert. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pensions-expert.com

pensions-expert.com

33 ms

www.pensions-expert.com

www.pensions-expert.com

178 ms

www.pensions-expert.com

www.pensions-expert.com

618 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

51 ms

js

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84 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

83 ms

banner.js

banner.js

39 ms

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241 ms

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79d5c7dbbbea1e134c8683a11da02a81_1544805257.js

322 ms

api.js

api.js

44 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

323 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

65 ms

53bf725ff28d8daec94d9976b80e55d0_1720466287.js

53bf725ff28d8daec94d9976b80e55d0_1720466287.js

368 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

41 ms

site-logo-desktop.png

site-logo-desktop.png

93 ms

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Masthead-13.1.14_masthead_image.png

92 ms

button-close-popup.gif

button-close-popup.gif

93 ms

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pw-logo-light.jpg

160 ms

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168 ms

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163 ms

It-s-Starting!-UK-Rate-Cuts-and-their-Implications-for-DB-Pensions_sponsor_logo.png

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236 ms

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248 ms

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249 ms

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249 ms

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387 ms

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313 ms

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314 ms

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316 ms

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319 ms

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326 ms

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445 ms

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356 ms

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149 ms

print.css

print.css

80 ms

Accessibility Review

pensions-expert.com accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

pensions-expert.com 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

pensions-expert.com SEO score

83

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

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

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 Pensions-expert.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 Pensions-expert.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Pensions Expert. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: