Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

santanderselect.co.uk

Santander Select | Premium Products & Services | Santander UK

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

191 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

326 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Santanderselect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 191 ms and then it took 1.8 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

santanderselect.co.uk performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.3

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

santanderselect.co.uk

191 ms

66 ms

modernizr.js

56 ms

dojoIPF175_c.js

34 ms

dojo_c.js

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Santanderselect.co.uk, 71% (56 requests) were made to Santander.co.uk and 5% (4 requests) were made to R.turn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (239 ms) relates to the external source Service.maxymiser.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (63%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Santanderselect.co.uk main page is 3.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 96.7 kB

  • Original 113.5 kB
  • After minification 110.5 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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 96.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 54.6 kB

  • Original 590.8 kB
  • After minification 536.2 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. Santander Select images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 616.8 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 1.5 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 459.8 kB

  • Original 539.5 kB
  • After minification 465.3 kB
  • After compression 79.6 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. Santanderselect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 459.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (70%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Santander Select. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

santanderselect.co.uk accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

santanderselect.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

santanderselect.co.uk SEO score

92

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 Santanderselect.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 Santanderselect.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 Santander Select. 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: