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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

simssolar.co.uk

Sims Solar. Oxfordshire solar panel and solar thermal systems installer.

Page Load Speed

22.5 sec in total

First Response

233 ms

Resources Loaded

22.1 sec

Page Rendered

128 ms

About Website

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Sims Solar. Oxfordshire solar panel and solar thermal systems installer. Specialising in the design, supply, installation and maintenance of solar photovoltaic (PV), solar thermal systems and battery ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Simssolar.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 233 ms and then it took 22.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

simssolar.co.uk performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.079

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

simssolar.co.uk

233 ms

www.simssolar.co.uk

971 ms

template.css

181 ms

main.css

177 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

782 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Simssolar.co.uk, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.1 sec) relates to the external source Yougen.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 354.4 kB (44%)

Content Size

800.0 kB

After Optimization

445.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Simssolar.co.uk main page is 800.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 453.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 9.0 kB
  • After minification 7.9 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 1.0 kB, which is 11% 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 5.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6 B

  • Original 309.0 kB
  • After minification 309.0 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. Sims Solar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 323.6 kB

  • Original 453.0 kB
  • After minification 416.8 kB
  • After compression 129.4 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 323.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 29.1 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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. Simssolar.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (25%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sims Solar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

simssolar.co.uk accessibility score

61

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

simssolar.co.uk best practices score

58

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

simssolar.co.uk SEO score

62

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

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 Simssolar.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 Simssolar.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 Sims Solar. 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: