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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

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

principality.co.uk

Principality | Where homes matter | Principality

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

301 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

656 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Principality.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 301 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

principality.co.uk performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,330 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.394

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

principality.co.uk

301 ms

principality.co.uk

564 ms

pa-5b0d0c03a42dbb00070001cc.js

184 ms

gtm.js

92 ms

get_synthetix.min.js

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Principality.co.uk, 19% (10 requests) were made to Cdn.synthetix.com and 17% (9 requests) were made to Api.synthetix.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Principality.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 276.6 kB (34%)

Content Size

817.7 kB

After Optimization

541.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Principality.co.uk main page is 817.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 487.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 260.3 kB

  • Original 295.0 kB
  • After minification 272.2 kB
  • After compression 34.7 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 260.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 487.9 kB
  • After minification 479.5 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. Principality images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 21.9 kB
  • After minification 21.9 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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 5.7 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 13.0 kB
  • After minification 13.0 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. Principality.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.3 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (33%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Principality. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

principality.co.uk

principality.co.uk

301 ms

principality.co.uk

principality.co.uk

564 ms

pa-5b0d0c03a42dbb00070001cc.js

pa-5b0d0c03a42dbb00070001cc.js

184 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

92 ms

get_synthetix.min.js

get_synthetix.min.js

43 ms

css

css

202 ms

js

js

587 ms

Principality-Building-Society-logo.png

Principality-Building-Society-logo.png

738 ms

PBSPrideCarouselBanner22.jpg

PBSPrideCarouselBanner22.jpg

790 ms

HPI.jpg

HPI.jpg

1347 ms

FHS-carousel-banner.jpg

FHS-carousel-banner.jpg

1632 ms

fcsc-logo.jpg

fcsc-logo.jpg

1747 ms

account.png

account.png

1857 ms

callus.png

callus.png

1965 ms

find-branch.png

find-branch.png

2075 ms

book-appointment.png

book-appointment.png

2186 ms

self_configure

self_configure

544 ms

uc.js

uc.js

36 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

39 ms

cc.js

cc.js

152 ms

bc-v4.min.html

bc-v4.min.html

143 ms

css

css

49 ms

icon-search.png

icon-search.png

2024 ms

icon-burger-menu.png

icon-burger-menu.png

2129 ms

carousel-prev.png

carousel-prev.png

2236 ms

carousel-next.png

carousel-next.png

2344 ms

icon-right-std.png

icon-right-std.png

2454 ms

chevron-blue-highlight.png

chevron-blue-highlight.png

2553 ms

search-icon-white.png

search-icon-white.png

2664 ms

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4gaVc.ttf

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4gaVc.ttf

27 ms

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsgH1x4gaVc.ttf

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsgH1x4gaVc.ttf

35 ms

2FA564_1_0.woff

2FA564_1_0.woff

2786 ms

2FA564_0_0.woff

2FA564_0_0.woff

2996 ms

self_configure

self_configure

239 ms

core.js

core.js

18 ms

sx_pres_functions.js

sx_pres_functions.js

28 ms

sx_animate.min.css

sx_animate.min.css

28 ms

sx_triggers_func.css

sx_triggers_func.css

39 ms

sx_triggers_pres.css

sx_triggers_pres.css

318 ms

sx_frame_func.css

sx_frame_func.css

32 ms

sx_frame_pres.css

sx_frame_pres.css

41 ms

custom_icons.html

custom_icons.html

337 ms

session

session

84 ms

trigger.html

trigger.html

14 ms

trigger

trigger

136 ms

session

session

273 ms

trigger

trigger

207 ms

session

session

98 ms

variables

variables

72 ms

variables

variables

197 ms

list-disc.png

list-disc.png

739 ms

323 ms

Accessibility Review

principality.co.uk accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

principality.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

principality.co.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Principality.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 Principality.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

principality.co.uk

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