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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

diy.co.uk

B&Q | DIY Products at Everyday Low Prices | DIY at B&Q

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

9 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

627 ms

About Website

Welcome to diy.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check DIY best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about diy.co.uk

Shop for everything you need to complete your home and garden project. Order online for 1hr Click+Collect, or free home delivery on orders over £75.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Diy.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 9 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

diy.co.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,050 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.064

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.diy.com

9 ms

www.diy.com

735 ms

ruxitagentjs_A7NVfghqrtux_10291240606133530.js

14 ms

diy

19 ms

hash-0d1be64b7baa00f55f94.css

107 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Diy.co.uk, 6% (3 requests) were made to Ccl-prod.cache.ap.digikfplc.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Vice-prod.sdiapi.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Diy.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 650.8 kB (75%)

Content Size

869.8 kB

After Optimization

219.0 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Diy.co.uk main page is 869.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 788.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 650.7 kB

  • Original 788.6 kB
  • After minification 788.6 kB
  • After compression 138.0 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. 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 650.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 179 B

  • Original 81.2 kB
  • After minification 81.2 kB
  • After compression 81.0 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (85%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DIY. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

diy.co.uk accessibility score

98

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

diy.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

diy.co.uk SEO score

91

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 Diy.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 Diy.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 DIY. 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: