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Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

whatmortgage.co.uk

What Mortgage: Latest Mortgage News & Advice for Home Buyers

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

423 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

270 ms

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About Website

Visit whatmortgage.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date What Mortgage content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about whatmortgage.co.uk

What Mortgage website covers all the latest mortgage news & calculators for first time buyers, remortgagers, movers & buy to let landlords.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whatmortgage.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 423 ms and then it took 4.4 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

whatmortgage.co.uk performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,000 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.731

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.whatmortgage.co.uk

423 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

120 ms

pc-style.css

192 ms

style.min.css

208 ms

classic-themes.min.css

211 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Whatmortgage.co.uk, 9% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 8% (10 requests) were made to D2td6mzj4f4e1e.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Whatmortgage.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 402.2 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Whatmortgage.co.uk main page is 1.8 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 788.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 341.0 kB

  • Original 408.7 kB
  • After minification 402.7 kB
  • After compression 67.7 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 341.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 27.5 kB

  • Original 788.7 kB
  • After minification 761.2 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. What Mortgage images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 26.0 kB

  • Original 517.3 kB
  • After minification 516.6 kB
  • After compression 491.2 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 112.5 kB
  • After minification 112.5 kB
  • After compression 104.9 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. Whatmortgage.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 71 (62%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of What Mortgage. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.whatmortgage.co.uk

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Accessibility Review

whatmortgage.co.uk accessibility score

65

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.

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

whatmortgage.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

whatmortgage.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 Whatmortgage.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 Whatmortgage.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 What Mortgage. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: