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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

fireplug.co.uk

Fire Protection & Fire Safety Supplies Company | Fire Proofing Materials Supplier | Bristol UK

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

679 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

232 ms

About Website

Welcome to fireplug.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Fire Plug best content right away, or after learning these important things about fireplug.co.uk

FirePlug are a leading fire safety supplier with a vast range of fire protection supplies, acoustic products and fire proofing construction materials on offer.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fireplug.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 679 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fireplug.co.uk performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

57/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fireplug.co.uk

679 ms

css

46 ms

fa-safe.css

27 ms

styles.dymc.css

370 ms

styles.dymc.css

308 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Fireplug.co.uk, 32% (15 requests) were made to 27.cdn.ekm.net and 26% (12 requests) were made to Files.ekmcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (679 ms) belongs to the original domain Fireplug.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 55.4 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fireplug.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 862.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 38.3 kB

  • Original 49.9 kB
  • After minification 40.4 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 9.5 kB, which is 19% 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 38.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 862.6 kB
  • After minification 856.4 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. Fire Plug images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 97.4 kB
  • After minification 97.4 kB
  • After compression 95.7 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

-15%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 59.3 kB
  • After minification 59.1 kB
  • After compression 50.2 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. Fireplug.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.1 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (49%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fire Plug. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

fireplug.co.uk accessibility score

88

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.

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

fireplug.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

fireplug.co.uk SEO score

91

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

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 Fireplug.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 Fireplug.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 Fire Plug. 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: