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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

barkershome.co.uk

Furniture Store Living, Dining & Bedroom | Barkers Home Northallerton

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

265 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

338 ms

About Website

Visit barkershome.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Barkers Home content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about barkershome.co.uk

Barkers Home Store is a one of largest independent, family-run furniture stores in the UK. The 60,000 sq ft showroom in North Yorkshire has the finest in quality, style and value.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barkershome.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 265 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

barkershome.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,020 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

barkershome.co.uk

265 ms

barkershome.co.uk

972 ms

style

413 ms

barkerstyle

429 ms

jquery

362 ms

Our browser made a total of 174 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (168 requests) were addressed to the original Barkershome.co.uk, 1% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Barkershome.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 954.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

16.2 MB

After Optimization

15.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Barkershome.co.uk main page is 16.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 16.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 132.3 kB

  • Original 147.3 kB
  • After minification 116.7 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 30.6 kB, which is 21% 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 132.3 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 822.4 kB

  • Original 16.0 MB
  • After minification 15.2 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. Barkers Home images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (8%)

Requests Now

169

After Optimization

156

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 169 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barkers Home. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

barkershome.co.uk accessibility score

72

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

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

barkershome.co.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

barkershome.co.uk SEO score

74

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Barkershome.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 Barkershome.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 Barkers Home. 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: