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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

theprogressive.com

Progressive Building Society - Mortgages and Savings

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

508 ms

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About Website

Visit theprogressive.com now to see the best up-to-date The Progressive content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about theprogressive.com

Progressive is Northern Ireland's only locally owned provider for mortgages and savings. For over 100 years we've been helping people buy their own homes and...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theprogressive.com page load time and found that the first response time was 180 ms and then it took 4.8 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

theprogressive.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,220 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.618

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theprogressive.com

180 ms

theprogressive.com

609 ms

app.css

275 ms

CookieStyles.css

350 ms

custom.css

349 ms

Our browser made a total of 174 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (153 requests) were addressed to the original Theprogressive.com, 3% (6 requests) were made to Pro.fontawesome.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Theprogressive.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (19%)

Content Size

10.4 MB

After Optimization

8.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theprogressive.com main page is 10.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 222.4 kB

  • Original 250.4 kB
  • After minification 163.8 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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 86.5 kB, which is 35% 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 222.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 8.2 MB
  • After minification 6.7 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. Obviously, The Progressive needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.6 MB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 137.1 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 1.7 MB

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

-27%

Potential reduce by 24.3 kB

  • Original 88.9 kB
  • After minification 88.8 kB
  • After compression 64.5 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. Theprogressive.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.3 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (17%)

Requests Now

167

After Optimization

138

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 167 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Progressive. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theprogressive.com

theprogressive.com

180 ms

theprogressive.com

theprogressive.com

609 ms

app.css

app.css

275 ms

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CookieStyles.css

350 ms

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custom.css

349 ms

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109 ms

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242 ms

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71 ms

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Accessibility Review

theprogressive.com accessibility score

65

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

theprogressive.com 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

theprogressive.com SEO score

85

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

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

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 Theprogressive.com 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 Theprogressive.com 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

theprogressive.com

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