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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

alternativetiles.co.uk

Alternative Tiles - Specialist Suppliers of Wall and Floor Tiles, particularly Victorian floors

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

302 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

474 ms

alternativetiles.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Alternative Tiles content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about alternativetiles.co.uk

Alternative Tiles is an independent retailer based in Derby, offering over 50 years experience and a wide variety of tiles for all tastes and budgets

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alternativetiles.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 302 ms and then it took 2.6 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

alternativetiles.co.uk performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alternativetiles.co.uk

302 ms

www.alternativetiles.co.uk

546 ms

style.css

179 ms

slick.css

28 ms

css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Alternativetiles.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Alternativetiles.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 113.5 kB (1%)

Content Size

8.2 MB

After Optimization

8.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alternativetiles.co.uk main page is 8.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 24.9 kB

  • Original 30.9 kB
  • After minification 26.0 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.9 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 24.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 68.2 kB

  • Original 8.2 MB
  • After minification 8.1 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. Alternative Tiles images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 442 B

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 1.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 19.1 kB

  • Original 22.9 kB
  • After minification 15.4 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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. Alternativetiles.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (16%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

36

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alternative Tiles. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alternativetiles.co.uk

alternativetiles.co.uk

302 ms

www.alternativetiles.co.uk

www.alternativetiles.co.uk

546 ms

style.css

style.css

179 ms

slick.css

slick.css

28 ms

css

css

42 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

37 ms

js

js

59 ms

main.js

main.js

218 ms

all.js

all.js

21 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

2 ms

css

css

25 ms

Alternative_Tiles-SVG.svg

Alternative_Tiles-SVG.svg

111 ms

vft333.jpg

vft333.jpg

576 ms

111a_h_mint.jpg

111a_h_mint.jpg

356 ms

12n.jpg

12n.jpg

608 ms

vft375.jpg

vft375.jpg

785 ms

bolero_walls_1.jpg

bolero_walls_1.jpg

528 ms

vft371.jpg

vft371.jpg

703 ms

vft366.jpg

vft366.jpg

535 ms

vft367.jpg

vft367.jpg

708 ms

fossil_stone_porcelain.jpeg

fossil_stone_porcelain.jpeg

627 ms

wood1.jpg

wood1.jpg

667 ms

black_glass_rule3.jpeg

black_glass_rule3.jpeg

699 ms

bw16.jpg

bw16.jpg

717 ms

OS-Beeston-032.jpg

OS-Beeston-032.jpg

760 ms

green_blen4.JPG

green_blen4.JPG

789 ms

OS-Nottingham-Clumber-Court-007.jpg

OS-Nottingham-Clumber-Court-007.jpg

792 ms

OS-Allestry-002.jpg

OS-Allestry-002.jpg

798 ms

vft88.jpg

vft88.jpg

806 ms

kw19.jpg

kw19.jpg

849 ms

vft145.jpg

vft145.jpg

875 ms

vft146.jpg

vft146.jpg

879 ms

vft147.jpg

vft147.jpg

883 ms

vft149.jpg

vft149.jpg

889 ms

vft296.jpg

vft296.jpg

983 ms

vft297.jpg

vft297.jpg

1024 ms

vft298.jpg

vft298.jpg

969 ms

victorian_card.JPG

victorian_card.JPG

1059 ms

bathroom_tile_card.jpg

bathroom_tile_card.jpg

1060 ms

20.jpg

20.jpg

1157 ms

splashback_card.jpg

splashback_card.jpg

1063 ms

4ie%20stat.jpg

4ie%20stat.jpg

1074 ms

11.jpg

11.jpg

1119 ms

winchatt2.jpg

winchatt2.jpg

1152 ms

pt1.jpg

pt1.jpg

1153 ms

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31 ms

Accessibility Review

alternativetiles.co.uk accessibility score

82

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

alternativetiles.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

alternativetiles.co.uk SEO score

89

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alternativetiles.co.uk 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 Alternativetiles.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

alternativetiles.co.uk

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