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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 68

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

pipekit.co.uk

Pipekit Ltd | Pipework Solutions | Drainage Systems | Pipes | Fittings & Valves

Page Load Speed

24.5 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

17.7 sec

About Website

Visit pipekit.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Pipekit content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about pipekit.co.uk

Pipekit ltd is a leading Specialist independent Distributor of Quality Pipework Systems & Drainage Solutions for households or Trade - All supported by Expert advice & After Care

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pipekit.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 23.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pipekit.co.uk performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value990 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.pipekit.co.uk

1211 ms

js

57 ms

preloads.js

68 ms

load_feature-9f951eb7d8d53973c719de211f807d63af81c644e5b9a6ae72661ac408d472f6.js

29 ms

features-1c0b396bd4d054b94abae1eb6a1bd6ba47beb35525c57a217c77a862ff06d83f.js

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 186 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (177 requests) were addressed to the original Pipekit.co.uk, 2% (3 requests) were made to Flagicons.lipis.dev and 1% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.shopify.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Pipekit.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (6%)

Content Size

16.6 MB

After Optimization

15.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pipekit.co.uk main page is 16.6 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. 75% 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 15.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 746.3 kB

  • Original 811.7 kB
  • After minification 519.1 kB
  • After compression 65.5 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 292.6 kB, which is 36% 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 746.3 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 254.2 kB

  • Original 15.6 MB
  • After minification 15.3 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. Pipekit images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 391 B

  • Original 185.5 kB
  • After minification 185.5 kB
  • After compression 185.1 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 38.5 kB
  • After minification 38.5 kB
  • After compression 35.1 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. Pipekit.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (34%)

Requests Now

184

After Optimization

121

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 184 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pipekit. 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 35 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

pipekit.co.uk accessibility score

93

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

pipekit.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pipekit.co.uk SEO score

68

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Pipekit.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 Pipekit.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 Pipekit. 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: