Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

sms-express.uk

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Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

729 ms

Page Rendered

4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sms-express.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sms-express.uk performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value53,460 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value69.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sms-express.uk

43 ms

67 ms

Nx8UJHsAUkukkBgSpDSVsZrP96s.js

21 ms

bootstrap.min.css

109 ms

style.css

83 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 Sms-express.uk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (304 ms) belongs to the original domain Sms-express.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 210.4 kB (60%)

Content Size

348.2 kB

After Optimization

137.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Sms-express.uk main page is 348.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 214.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 201.1 kB

  • Original 214.0 kB
  • After minification 149.4 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 64.7 kB, which is 30% 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 201.1 kB or 94% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 67.6 kB
  • After minification 58.3 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, SMS Express needs image optimization as it can save up to 9.3 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 24 B

  • Original 66.1 kB
  • After minification 66.1 kB
  • After compression 66.0 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 13 B

  • Original 583 B
  • After minification 583 B
  • After compression 570 B

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. Sms-express.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (50%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SMS Express. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sms-express.uk accessibility score

75

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

sms-express.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sms-express.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Sms-express.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 Sms-express.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 SMS Express. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: