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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

somo.co.uk

Somo | Borrow or invest over UK property

Page Load Speed

24.6 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

21.5 sec

Page Rendered

990 ms

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About Website

Welcome to somo.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Somo best content right away, or after learning these important things about somo.co.uk

Somo originated from a generational family lending business that has developed through evolutionary thinking since it's inception in 2014...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Somo.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 22.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

somo.co.uk performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,270 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.somo.co.uk

2102 ms

bootstrap.min.css

73 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

65 ms

mdb.min.css

119 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

135 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Somo.co.uk, 7% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Somo.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 70.5 kB (2%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Somo.co.uk main page is 4.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 43.3 kB

  • Original 58.6 kB
  • After minification 58.6 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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 43.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 4.4 MB

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. Somo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 57.5 kB
  • After minification 57.4 kB
  • After compression 54.0 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 73.1 kB
  • After minification 73.1 kB
  • After compression 66.8 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. Somo.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (47%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Somo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.somo.co.uk

www.somo.co.uk

2102 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

73 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

65 ms

mdb.min.css

mdb.min.css

119 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

135 ms

additional-methods.min.js

additional-methods.min.js

145 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

66 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

66 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

144 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

143 ms

hash-8dj.js

hash-8dj.js

255 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

523 ms

customStyles.css

customStyles.css

250 ms

js

js

108 ms

js

js

156 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

101 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

326 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

450 ms

admtracker.lib.min.js

admtracker.lib.min.js

450 ms

hotjar-3662448.js

hotjar-3662448.js

534 ms

paddlock.svg

paddlock.svg

284 ms

banner-brand-symbol.svg

banner-brand-symbol.svg

283 ms

somo-logo-black.svg

somo-logo-black.svg

285 ms

borrowers-section-img.jpg

borrowers-section-img.jpg

20415 ms

brokers-section-img.jpg

brokers-section-img.jpg

1202 ms

investors-section-img-fp.jpg

investors-section-img-fp.jpg

1147 ms

blog-post-featured-image.jpg

blog-post-featured-image.jpg

1991 ms

3c30297c2f23b322cd94.svg

3c30297c2f23b322cd94.svg

449 ms

4525cfef7ecde9d8e69d.woff

4525cfef7ecde9d8e69d.woff

415 ms

298 ms

328 ms

loader.js

loader.js

260 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

137 ms

4ef8cec15fe32b608388.woff

4ef8cec15fe32b608388.woff

301 ms

d2fe2595a563a78d5a20.woff

d2fe2595a563a78d5a20.woff

404 ms

3b39d8d87860f05e85cf.woff

3b39d8d87860f05e85cf.woff

517 ms

modules.a4fd7e5489291affcf56.js

modules.a4fd7e5489291affcf56.js

46 ms

call-tracking_7.js

call-tracking_7.js

13 ms

52 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

23 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

wcm

wcm

18 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

23 ms

aal.png

aal.png

117 ms

a3.svg

a3.svg

129 ms

a4.svg

a4.svg

184 ms

1l.png

1l.png

659 ms

2.svg

2.svg

225 ms

3.svg

3.svg

232 ms

4.svg

4.svg

287 ms

5.svg

5.svg

328 ms

6.svg

6.svg

339 ms

7.svg

7.svg

392 ms

8l.png

8l.png

434 ms

9.svg

9.svg

443 ms

10.svg

10.svg

499 ms

11.svg

11.svg

538 ms

Register_Login_IMG.jpg

Register_Login_IMG.jpg

548 ms

dismiss.svg

dismiss.svg

602 ms

sidebar-nav.js

sidebar-nav.js

545 ms

carousel.js

carousel.js

557 ms

bridgecrowd

bridgecrowd

47 ms

somo-logo.svg

somo-logo.svg

608 ms

bottom.svg

bottom.svg

651 ms

navigation.js

navigation.js

651 ms

feefo-widget.js

feefo-widget.js

35 ms

Accessibility Review

somo.co.uk accessibility score

76

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

somo.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

somo.co.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Somo.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 Somo.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

somo.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Somo. 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: