Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

pestuk.com

Pest Control Specialists - PEST UK

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

657 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

176 ms

pestuk.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to pestuk.com homepage info - get ready to check PEST UK best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about pestuk.com

PEST UK have been providing fast, reliable pest control services in domestic and commercial situations for over 30 years.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pestuk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 657 ms and then it took 2.8 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

pestuk.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.321

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pestuk.com

657 ms

www.pestuk.com

1101 ms

styles.css

195 ms

slideshow.js

488 ms

addthis_widget.js

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Pestuk.com, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Pestuk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 347.0 kB (47%)

Content Size

738.2 kB

After Optimization

391.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Pestuk.com main page is 738.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 473.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 38.7 kB

  • Original 56.6 kB
  • After minification 54.0 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 38.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 349 B

  • Original 202.4 kB
  • After minification 202.1 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. PEST UK images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 303.8 kB

  • Original 473.8 kB
  • After minification 473.8 kB
  • After compression 170.0 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 303.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 5.4 kB
  • After minification 4.3 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Pestuk.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (29%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

12

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

Accessibility Review

pestuk.com accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

pestuk.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pestuk.com SEO score

73

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pestuk.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Pestuk.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

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