Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

royal-london.co.uk

Royal London | Life Insurance, Pensions and Investments | Since 1861 - Royal London

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

310 ms

Resources Loaded

772 ms

Page Rendered

54 ms

royal-london.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Royal London content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about royal-london.co.uk

From Life Insurance and Pensions to Retirement, Savings and Investments, Royal London has been helping people plan for life's financial milestones since 1861.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Royal-london.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 310 ms and then it took 826 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

royal-london.co.uk performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

royal-london.co.uk

310 ms

rl_logo_lg.png

463 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Royal-london.co.uk, 50% (1 request) were made to Royallondon.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (463 ms) relates to the external source Royallondon.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.7 kB (17%)

Content Size

101.8 kB

After Optimization

84.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Royal-london.co.uk main page is 101.8 kB. This result falls within a big category (top 100 000) of medium weight web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 99.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 830 B

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 237 B, which is 12% 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 1.2 kB or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 99.7 kB
  • After minification 83.2 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, Royal London needs image optimization as it can save up to 16.5 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Royal London. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

royal-london.co.uk accessibility score

55

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

royal-london.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

SEO Factors

royal-london.co.uk SEO score

54

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Royal-london.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Royal-london.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 description is not detected on the main page of Royal London. 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: