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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

burston.co.uk

Award Winning Garden Centre St. Albans - Burston Garden Centre

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

506 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

336 ms

About Website

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Welcome to Burston Garden Centre. Hertfordshire's favourite choice for home & garden. Visit our independent award winning garden centre in St. Albans today!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Burston.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 506 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

burston.co.uk performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.3 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,840 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.245

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.burston.co.uk

506 ms

layerslider.css

23 ms

b9b30a668ea0d90c936375a574960fe5.min.css

120 ms

jquery.min.js

35 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (109 requests) were addressed to the original Burston.co.uk, 8% (11 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Chimpstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 134.6 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Burston.co.uk main page is 1.8 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. Javascripts take 766.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 128.9 kB

  • Original 152.1 kB
  • After minification 150.3 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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 128.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 489.0 kB
  • After minification 489.0 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. Burston images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 766.8 kB
  • After minification 766.8 kB
  • After compression 762.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 821 B

  • Original 399.9 kB
  • After minification 399.9 kB
  • After compression 399.1 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. Burston.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 94 (76%)

Requests Now

123

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 123 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Burston. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 95 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

burston.co.uk accessibility score

85

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

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

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>).

Best Practices

burston.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

burston.co.uk SEO score

84

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

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 Burston.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 Burston.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 data is detected on the main page of Burston. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: