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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

rec.uk.com

Home | REC | Recruitment and Employment Confederation

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rec.uk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rec.uk.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

72/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,360 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.061

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rec.uk.com

143 ms

www.rec.uk.com

379 ms

frontend.css

215 ms

css

43 ms

application.css

306 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Rec.uk.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Services.postcodeanywhere.co.uk and 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (763 ms) relates to the external source Cmp.osano.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 275.5 kB (51%)

Content Size

538.0 kB

After Optimization

262.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rec.uk.com main page is 538.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 257.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 241.2 kB

  • Original 257.0 kB
  • After minification 140.3 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 116.7 kB, which is 45% 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 241.2 kB or 94% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 124.5 kB
  • After minification 122.4 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. REC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 130.1 kB
  • After minification 130.1 kB
  • After compression 97.9 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 32.2 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 92 B

  • Original 26.4 kB
  • After minification 26.4 kB
  • After compression 26.3 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. Rec.uk.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (67%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of REC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rec.uk.com

rec.uk.com

143 ms

www.rec.uk.com

www.rec.uk.com

379 ms

frontend.css

frontend.css

215 ms

css

css

43 ms

application.css

application.css

306 ms

address-3.91.css

address-3.91.css

30 ms

OneSignalSDK.js

OneSignalSDK.js

59 ms

address-3.91.js

address-3.91.js

224 ms

application.js

application.js

387 ms

frontend.js

frontend.js

381 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

128 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

339 ms

sprite.svg

sprite.svg

341 ms

strap.svg

strap.svg

337 ms

pattern_recruiters@1x.svg

pattern_recruiters@1x.svg

169 ms

pattern_jobseekers@1x.svg

pattern_jobseekers@1x.svg

352 ms

divider.svg

divider.svg

171 ms

REC-Manifesto-WebBanner.jpg

REC-Manifesto-WebBanner.jpg

503 ms

f14ca3ff89ea51da29e3f38a8fcc4088.jpg

f14ca3ff89ea51da29e3f38a8fcc4088.jpg

399 ms

rec-icon-white.svg

rec-icon-white.svg

413 ms

CTA_emblem.svg

CTA_emblem.svg

358 ms

card.svg

card.svg

635 ms

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWw.ttf

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWw.ttf

22 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHA.ttf

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHA.ttf

30 ms

osano.js

osano.js

763 ms

js

js

49 ms

hotjar-1022025.js

hotjar-1022025.js

128 ms

gtm-script.js

gtm-script.js

357 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

115 ms

modules.1a30a0a67c3c23c13060.js

modules.1a30a0a67c3c23c13060.js

15 ms

collect

collect

83 ms

Accessibility Review

rec.uk.com accessibility score

95

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

SEO Factors

rec.uk.com SEO score

90

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

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 Rec.uk.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 Rec.uk.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

rec.uk.com

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