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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

union.co.uk

THE UNION | Award-winning Advertising & Digital Agency | Edinburgh, Scotland

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

212 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

194 ms

union.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing UNION content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about union.co.uk

The Union is a leading UK regional marketing and digital agency. Winner of over 300 creative & 150 marketing effectiveness awards. Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Union.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 212 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

union.co.uk performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

union.co.uk

212 ms

union.co.uk

1148 ms

style.min.css

318 ms

search-filter.min.css

229 ms

css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Union.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Koi-3qni5d3diy.marketingautomation.services and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Union.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 416.0 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Union.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 837.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 133.3 kB

  • Original 290.9 kB
  • After minification 282.0 kB
  • After compression 157.6 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 133.3 kB or 46% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 41.5 kB

  • Original 837.9 kB
  • After minification 796.4 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. UNION images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 234.5 kB

  • Original 388.5 kB
  • After minification 375.7 kB
  • After compression 154.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 234.5 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 79.9 kB
  • After minification 79.9 kB
  • After compression 73.2 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. Union.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (76%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UNION. 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 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

union.co.uk

union.co.uk

212 ms

union.co.uk

union.co.uk

1148 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

318 ms

search-filter.min.css

search-filter.min.css

229 ms

css

css

37 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

231 ms

app.css

app.css

308 ms

style.css

style.css

232 ms

site-wide.css

site-wide.css

306 ms

pages.css

pages.css

321 ms

pushmenu.css

pushmenu.css

315 ms

slick.css

slick.css

372 ms

cs-select.min.css

cs-select.min.css

381 ms

widgets.css

widgets.css

384 ms

magnific-popup.min.css

magnific-popup.min.css

383 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

20 ms

search-filter-build.min.js

search-filter-build.min.js

401 ms

chosen.jquery.min.js

chosen.jquery.min.js

399 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

447 ms

html5.js

html5.js

114 ms

autoscroll.min.js

autoscroll.min.js

209 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

208 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

210 ms

pushmenu.min.js

pushmenu.min.js

209 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

324 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

324 ms

jquery.requestAnimationFrame.js

jquery.requestAnimationFrame.js

323 ms

jquery.mousewheel.js

jquery.mousewheel.js

323 ms

ilightbox.packed.js

ilightbox.packed.js

375 ms

jquery.simple-text-rotator.min.js

jquery.simple-text-rotator.min.js

332 ms

lazyload.js

lazyload.js

399 ms

jquery.matchHeight-min.js

jquery.matchHeight-min.js

398 ms

classie.min.js

classie.min.js

397 ms

selectFx.min.js

selectFx.min.js

396 ms

jquery.flip.min.js

jquery.flip.min.js

397 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

439 ms

union.js

union.js

545 ms

ss.js

ss.js

167 ms

contact-map-edinburgh.png

contact-map-edinburgh.png

284 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

143 ms

union-logo-new-white.png

union-logo-new-white.png

267 ms

btt.svg

btt.svg

268 ms

font

font

32 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

155 ms

koi

koi

71 ms

HS-HISTORY-BUG-HERO-IMAGE-2.jpg

HS-HISTORY-BUG-HERO-IMAGE-2.jpg

79 ms

Ten-Awards-2022.jpg

Ten-Awards-2022.jpg

76 ms

homepage-slider-1.jpg

homepage-slider-1.jpg

382 ms

homepage-slider.jpg

homepage-slider.jpg

230 ms

homepage-slider-1400x700.jpg

homepage-slider-1400x700.jpg

152 ms

Accessibility Review

union.co.uk accessibility score

77

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

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

union.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

union.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Union.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 Union.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

union.co.uk

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