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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

colourway.co.uk

Colourway yarns, design books and knitting needles, stockist of Rowan and other specialist yarns.

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

758 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

120 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Colourway.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 758 ms and then it took 2.9 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

colourway.co.uk performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.077

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.colourway.co.uk

758 ms

2347341aebb61a283691523dcc6149ee.idyllic-2.css.php

351 ms

41b69f8df01cfa5dc0c57189b0fbc509.idyllic-2.css-fonts.php

263 ms

4b90a79eacdea8f367bc74a6b6754e8e.jquery-3.js.php

444 ms

682074c44d2cbb35c23cf49bcc50949d.idyllic-2.functions.js.php

444 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Colourway.co.uk, 82% (74 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (806 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

113.0 kB

After Optimization

95.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Colourway.co.uk main page is 113.0 kB. 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 66.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 12.2 kB
  • After minification 12.1 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 7.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 66.6 kB
  • After minification 60.1 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. Colourway images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 34.2 kB
  • After minification 34.2 kB
  • After compression 31.3 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (33%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Colourway. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

colourway.co.uk accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

colourway.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

SEO Factors

colourway.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Colourway.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 Colourway.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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