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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

globalknives.uk

Global Knives: Professional Chef's Knives & Japanese Specialist Knives - Global Knives

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

726 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

146 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Global Knives content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about globalknives.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Globalknives.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 726 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

globalknives.uk performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.613

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.globalknives.uk

726 ms

js

61 ms

gtm.js

121 ms

analytics.js

21 ms

fancy-input.css

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Globalknives.uk, 10% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (726 ms) belongs to the original domain Globalknives.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 222.9 kB (37%)

Content Size

605.0 kB

After Optimization

382.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Globalknives.uk main page is 605.0 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 306.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 222.8 kB

  • Original 276.7 kB
  • After minification 274.8 kB
  • After compression 54.0 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 222.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 44 B

  • Original 306.2 kB
  • After minification 306.2 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. Global Knives images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 60 B

  • Original 22.1 kB
  • After minification 22.1 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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 3 (18%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Global Knives. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

globalknives.uk accessibility score

71

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

ARIA toggle fields do not have accessible names

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

globalknives.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

globalknives.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Globalknives.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 Globalknives.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 Global Knives. 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: