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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

national.virginmedia.com

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Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

355 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed National.virginmedia.com page load time and found that the first response time was 355 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

national.virginmedia.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,130 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

national.virginmedia.com

355 ms

www.virginmedia.com

453 ms

geo4.js

47 ms

dynatrace-script-prod.js

338 ms

initGTM.js

324 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original National.virginmedia.com, 46% (18 requests) were made to Prod.ctassets.virginmedia.com and 36% (14 requests) were made to Virginmedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (724 ms) relates to the external source Dtagate.virginmedia.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 584.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

6.0 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of National.virginmedia.com main page is 6.0 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 5.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 382.4 kB

  • Original 429.2 kB
  • After minification 423.6 kB
  • After compression 46.8 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 382.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 193.2 kB

  • Original 5.0 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. National Virgin Media images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 621.4 kB
  • After minification 621.4 kB
  • After compression 616.0 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

-18%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 20.5 kB
  • After minification 20.5 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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. National.virginmedia.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.6 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (32%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National Virgin Media. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

national.virginmedia.com

national.virginmedia.com

355 ms

www.virginmedia.com

www.virginmedia.com

453 ms

geo4.js

geo4.js

47 ms

dynatrace-script-prod.js

dynatrace-script-prod.js

338 ms

initGTM.js

initGTM.js

324 ms

skrollr.js

skrollr.js

328 ms

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124 ms

lux.js

lux.js

30 ms

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374 ms

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408 ms

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407 ms

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631 ms

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674 ms

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724 ms

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235 ms

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177 ms

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324 ms

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118 ms

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387 ms

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344 ms

Accessibility Review

national.virginmedia.com accessibility score

81

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

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

national.virginmedia.com 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

national.virginmedia.com 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 National.virginmedia.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 National.virginmedia.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

national.virginmedia.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of National Virgin Media. 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: