Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

practiceplan.co.uk

Practice Plan | Leading provider of practice branded dental membership plans

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

186 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

505 ms

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About Website

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

Practice Plan are the UK's leading provider of practice-branded dental membership plans to help you leave NHS dentistry or switch providers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Practiceplan.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 186 ms and then it took 2.5 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

practiceplan.co.uk performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,150 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

practiceplan.co.uk

186 ms

www.practiceplan.co.uk

519 ms

styles.css

146 ms

style.css

221 ms

layout.min.css

306 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Practiceplan.co.uk, 10% (3 requests) were made to Gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (519 ms) belongs to the original domain Practiceplan.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 80.9 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

934.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Practiceplan.co.uk main page is 1.0 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. Images take 568.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 49.4 kB

  • Original 66.3 kB
  • After minification 62.1 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 49.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 568.5 kB
  • After minification 563.5 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. Practice Plan images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 353.8 kB
  • After minification 353.8 kB
  • After compression 352.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 26.3 kB
  • After minification 1.6 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Practiceplan.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.0 kB or 95% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (68%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Practice Plan. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

practiceplan.co.uk accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

practiceplan.co.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

practiceplan.co.uk SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Practiceplan.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 Practiceplan.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

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