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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

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Page Load Speed

999 ms in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

677 ms

Page Rendered

285 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Compare.telegraph.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 962 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

compare.telegraph.co.uk performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value500 ms

58/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

compare

37 ms

style.css

160 ms

trackings.js

32 ms

index.js

44 ms

carousel.js

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Compare.telegraph.co.uk, 7% (1 request) were made to Cdn.consentmanager.net and 7% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (563 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.consentmanager.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 267.4 kB (71%)

Content Size

378.9 kB

After Optimization

111.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Compare.telegraph.co.uk main page is 378.9 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 230.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 54.9 kB

  • Original 68.2 kB
  • After minification 59.6 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 8.7 kB, which is 13% 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 54.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2 B

  • Original 543 B
  • After minification 541 B

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. Compare Telegraph images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 80.1 kB
  • After minification 80.1 kB
  • After compression 62.1 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 18.0 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 194.4 kB

  • Original 230.1 kB
  • After minification 214.0 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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. Compare.telegraph.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 194.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (42%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Compare Telegraph. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

compare

compare

37 ms

style.css

style.css

160 ms

trackings.js

trackings.js

32 ms

index.js

index.js

44 ms

carousel.js

carousel.js

73 ms

37332.js

37332.js

563 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

64 ms

datadog-rum.js

datadog-rum.js

16 ms

compare.svg

compare.svg

179 ms

by-telegraph-media-group.svg

by-telegraph-media-group.svg

53 ms

brought-to-you-by-savings-united.svg

brought-to-you-by-savings-united.svg

115 ms

broadband-small-green-icon.png

broadband-small-green-icon.png

26 ms

mobile-small-green-icon.png

mobile-small-green-icon.png

26 ms

tele-icons.ttf

tele-icons.ttf

66 ms

Accessibility Review

compare.telegraph.co.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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.

Best Practices

compare.telegraph.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

SEO Factors

compare.telegraph.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 Compare.telegraph.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 Compare.telegraph.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

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