Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

bargainhardware.co.uk

Refurbished Servers, PCs, Workstations & Parts | Bargain Hardware

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

289 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

533 ms

About Website

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

Bargain Hardware is Europe’s leading supplier of refurbished business class IT hardware including, servers, workstations, desktop PCs, laptops and components. 

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bargainhardware.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 289 ms and then it took 6.4 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

bargainhardware.co.uk performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,440 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.042

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bargainhardware.co.uk

289 ms

www.bargainhardware.co.uk

271 ms

www.bargainhardware.co.uk

460 ms

gtm.js

51 ms

js

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Bargainhardware.co.uk, 80% (90 requests) were made to Cdn.bargainhardware.co.uk and 3% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.bargainhardware.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 371.7 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

937.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Bargainhardware.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 487.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 322.4 kB

  • Original 368.8 kB
  • After minification 368.6 kB
  • After compression 46.3 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 322.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 46.0 kB

  • Original 487.3 kB
  • After minification 441.4 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. Bargain Hardware images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 352.2 kB
  • After minification 352.2 kB
  • After compression 349.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 231 B

  • Original 100.5 kB
  • After minification 100.5 kB
  • After compression 100.2 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. Bargainhardware.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (38%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

66

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bargain Hardware. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bargainhardware.co.uk accessibility score

75

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

bargainhardware.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

bargainhardware.co.uk SEO score

90

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

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 Bargainhardware.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 Bargainhardware.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 Bargain Hardware. 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: