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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

solarfriend.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

248 ms

Resources Loaded

896 ms

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Solarfriend.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 248 ms and then it took 2.1 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

solarfriend.co.uk performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

solarfriend.co.uk

248 ms

ga.js

11 ms

bfback.gif

80 ms

__utm.gif

12 ms

roof3.jpg

239 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Solarfriend.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (616 ms) belongs to the original domain Solarfriend.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 21.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

771.6 kB

After Optimization

749.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Solarfriend.co.uk main page is 771.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 725.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

  • Original 29.0 kB
  • After minification 26.0 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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. 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 19.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 725.5 kB
  • After minification 723.0 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. Solarfriend images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

38

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solarfriend. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

solarfriend.co.uk accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

solarfriend.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

solarfriend.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Solarfriend.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 Solarfriend.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 Solarfriend. 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: