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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

gardengatesdirect.co.uk

Garden Gates UK | Buy Cheap Driveway Gates, Side & Garden Gates Online - Garden Gates Direct

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

About Website

Welcome to gardengatesdirect.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Garden Gates Direct best content right away, or after learning these important things about gardengatesdirect.co.uk

Garden Gates Direct has a range of affordable and quality garden gates, side gates and driveway gates for sale in wooden, wrought iron and metal designs. Click to view the range and buy online today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gardengatesdirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gardengatesdirect.co.uk performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value37.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.336

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gardengatesdirect.co.uk

170 ms

gardengatesdirect.co.uk

315 ms

www.gardengatesdirect.co.uk

1066 ms

foundation.css

453 ms

print.css

308 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Gardengatesdirect.co.uk, 8% (6 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Gardengatesdirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 566.7 kB (6%)

Content Size

9.4 MB

After Optimization

8.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gardengatesdirect.co.uk main page is 9.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 8.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 101.1 kB

  • Original 114.2 kB
  • After minification 94.2 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 20.0 kB, which is 18% 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 101.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 148.3 kB

  • Original 8.9 MB
  • After minification 8.8 MB

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. Garden Gates Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 40.9 kB

  • Original 48.8 kB
  • After minification 26.5 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 40.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 276.4 kB

  • Original 309.1 kB
  • After minification 219.6 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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. Gardengatesdirect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 276.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (21%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

55

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Garden Gates Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 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

gardengatesdirect.co.uk accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

gardengatesdirect.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

gardengatesdirect.co.uk SEO score

73

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

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 Gardengatesdirect.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 Gardengatesdirect.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 Garden Gates Direct. 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: