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Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

boardshop.co.uk

Boardshop | By Surfers, For Surfers

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

656 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing Boardshop content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about boardshop.co.uk

Boardshop the UK’s favourite online surf shop since 2005. We have a premium range of Surfboards, Wetsuits and Accessories with award winning customer service!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boardshop.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 656 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 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

boardshop.co.uk performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

88/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.boardshop.co.uk

656 ms

styles.css

238 ms

alpine3.min.js

218 ms

boardshop-surfboards.jpg

107 ms

benefit-fast-delivery.svg

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Boardshop.co.uk, 60% (31 requests) were made to Img2.storyblok.com and 21% (11 requests) were made to A.storyblok.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (656 ms) belongs to the original domain Boardshop.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 271.9 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Boardshop.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 944.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 269.1 kB

  • Original 321.9 kB
  • After minification 277.2 kB
  • After compression 52.8 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 44.7 kB, which is 14% 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 269.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 944.1 kB
  • After minification 941.3 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. Boardshop images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 15.3 kB
  • After minification 15.3 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 19.2 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

47

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boardshop. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

boardshop.co.uk accessibility score

84

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

boardshop.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

boardshop.co.uk SEO score

79

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

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 Boardshop.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 Boardshop.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 Boardshop. 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: