Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

gccouture.co.uk

Luxury Cakes by GC Couture | Mayfair, London

Page Load Speed

9.7 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

144 ms

gccouture.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing GC Couture content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gccouture.co.uk

GC Couture is a luxury cake brand situated in Mayfair, London providing high-end cakes for the most exquisite weddings and events.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gccouture.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 7.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gccouture.co.uk performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.577

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gccouture.co.uk

2043 ms

style.css

228 ms

gallery.css

316 ms

easy-twitter-feed-widget.css

264 ms

style.css

826 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Gccouture.co.uk, 22% (23 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Gccouture.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (46%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Gccouture.co.uk main page is 2.7 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 174.9 kB

  • Original 231.4 kB
  • After minification 228.3 kB
  • After compression 56.5 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 174.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 971.0 kB
  • After minification 960.7 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. GC Couture images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 833.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 399.3 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 833.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 237.5 kB

  • Original 274.0 kB
  • After minification 234.8 kB
  • After compression 36.6 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. Gccouture.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 237.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (50%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GC Couture. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gccouture.co.uk accessibility score

84

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

gccouture.co.uk best practices score

67

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

gccouture.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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