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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

softwire.co.uk

Bespoke Software Development | Custom Software Developers

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

207 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Softwire.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 207 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

softwire.co.uk performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

73/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value880 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

softwire.co.uk

207 ms

www.softwire.com

345 ms

script.js

46 ms

style.min.css

45 ms

basicLightbox.min.css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Softwire.co.uk, 83% (34 requests) were made to Softwire.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Softwirestage.wpenginepowered.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (484 ms) relates to the external source Softwire.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 165.1 kB (18%)

Content Size

920.6 kB

After Optimization

755.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Softwire.co.uk main page is 920.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 703.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 93.3 kB

  • Original 113.8 kB
  • After minification 96.9 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 16.9 kB, which is 15% 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 93.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 70.3 kB

  • Original 703.0 kB
  • After minification 632.7 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. Softwire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 231 B

  • Original 36.6 kB
  • After minification 36.6 kB
  • After compression 36.3 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 1.2 kB

  • Original 67.2 kB
  • After minification 67.2 kB
  • After compression 66.0 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. Softwire.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (29%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Softwire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

softwire.co.uk

softwire.co.uk

207 ms

www.softwire.com

www.softwire.com

345 ms

script.js

script.js

46 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

45 ms

basicLightbox.min.css

basicLightbox.min.css

24 ms

main.css

main.css

27 ms

style-blocks-rowlayout.css

style-blocks-rowlayout.css

42 ms

style-blocks-column.css

style-blocks-column.css

25 ms

style-blocks-spacer.css

style-blocks-spacer.css

46 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

134 ms

matomo.js

matomo.js

58 ms

lines.svg

lines.svg

51 ms

AWS-partner-logo.png

AWS-partner-logo.png

147 ms

basicLightbox.min.js

basicLightbox.min.js

23 ms

basicLightbox.js

basicLightbox.js

23 ms

index.js

index.js

22 ms

MS_logo_320x226.png

MS_logo_320x226.png

135 ms

metaswitch-logo.jpg

metaswitch-logo.jpg

22 ms

bbc-logo.png

bbc-logo.png

19 ms

roh-logo-crop.png

roh-logo-crop.png

84 ms

Logo_Profile_Pensions.png

Logo_Profile_Pensions.png

83 ms

website_19020x430_homepage_2.png

website_19020x430_homepage_2.png

86 ms

Softwire-Work-Life-Balance-scaled.jpg

Softwire-Work-Life-Balance-scaled.jpg

84 ms

lines.png

lines.png

83 ms

Podcast_Monel_SW_website_blog_smcard_480x360.png

Podcast_Monel_SW_website_blog_smcard_480x360.png

83 ms

Softwire-Expressive-Tests-1-edited.jpg

Softwire-Expressive-Tests-1-edited.jpg

85 ms

gen_ai_banners_guide.png

gen_ai_banners_guide.png

86 ms

ebook_AI-1-300x300.png

ebook_AI-1-300x300.png

86 ms

Gradient_long_multi.png

Gradient_long_multi.png

87 ms

footer_lines.svg

footer_lines.svg

87 ms

cbp.png

cbp.png

86 ms

ccs.png

ccs.png

89 ms

nqa.png

nqa.png

89 ms

aws.png

aws.png

89 ms

cert.png

cert.png

90 ms

ms.png

ms.png

89 ms

matomo.php

matomo.php

432 ms

Montserrat-Regular.woff

Montserrat-Regular.woff

410 ms

Montserrat-Medium.ttf

Montserrat-Medium.ttf

484 ms

Montserrat-Light.woff

Montserrat-Light.woff

26 ms

Montserrat-Bold.woff

Montserrat-Bold.woff

27 ms

Accessibility Review

softwire.co.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

softwire.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

softwire.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 Softwire.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 Softwire.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

softwire.co.uk

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