Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

bhl.co.uk

Over 100,000 products for Plumbing, Heating, Home and Garden Supplies | BHL.co.uk

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

608 ms

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

414 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bhl.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 608 ms and then it took 7.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bhl.co.uk performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,000 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.218

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value57.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bhl.co.uk

608 ms

www.bhl.co.uk

1280 ms

www.bhl.co.uk

273 ms

www.bhl.co.uk

1829 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Bhl.co.uk, 39% (39 requests) were made to Cdn.bumfords.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Secure.livechatinc.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Bhl.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (50%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Bhl.co.uk main page is 3.1 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. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 114.9 kB

  • Original 137.2 kB
  • After minification 124.8 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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 114.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. BHL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 916.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 350.5 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 916.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 507.3 kB

  • Original 601.4 kB
  • After minification 504.6 kB
  • After compression 94.1 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. Bhl.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 507.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (25%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

66

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BHL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bhl.co.uk accessibility score

87

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bhl.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

bhl.co.uk SEO score

75

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 Bhl.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 Bhl.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of BHL. 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: