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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

southernswords.co.uk

Medieval Militaria Weapons, Clothing UK Store - Southern Swords Ltd

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

183 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

255 ms

About Website

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

Southern Swords is a premier retailer of Medieval Swords, Katanas and Armour for both display & Re-enactment with weaponry supplied to HEMA, Movie & Theatre and Museums.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southernswords.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 183 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southernswords.co.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,140 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.106

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southernswords.co.uk

183 ms

www.southernswords.co.uk

210 ms

5541cbcf3057f02ace651054db6e81ad.css

35 ms

styles-l.css

26 ms

require.js

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 260 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (240 requests) were addressed to the original Southernswords.co.uk, 5% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (826 ms) belongs to the original domain Southernswords.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 519.8 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southernswords.co.uk main page is 1.8 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 723.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 266.2 kB

  • Original 292.9 kB
  • After minification 249.2 kB
  • After compression 26.6 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 43.6 kB, which is 15% 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 266.2 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 723.9 kB
  • After minification 719.7 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. Southern Swords images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 242.9 kB

  • Original 643.9 kB
  • After minification 637.7 kB
  • After compression 401.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 242.9 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 177.0 kB
  • After minification 177.0 kB
  • After compression 170.7 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. Southernswords.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 216 (90%)

Requests Now

240

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 240 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern Swords. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 206 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

southernswords.co.uk accessibility score

72

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

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

southernswords.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

southernswords.co.uk SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Southernswords.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 Southernswords.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 Southern Swords. 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: