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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

sowerbybroscycles.co.uk

Sowerby Brothers Cycles, Electric bikes, mountain bikes, road bikes, gravel bikes and accessories

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

546 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sowerbybroscycles.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sowerbybroscycles.co.uk performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.052

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sowerbybroscycles.co.uk

1107 ms

css2

37 ms

all.css

129 ms

edreset.css

158 ms

layout.css

333 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Sowerbybroscycles.co.uk, 8% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Sowerbybroscycles.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 64.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sowerbybroscycles.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 31.7 kB
  • After minification 24.9 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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 6.8 kB, which is 21% 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 20.0 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Sowerby Bros Cycles images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 85.6 kB
  • After minification 85.2 kB
  • After compression 73.9 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 11.6 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 24.4 kB
  • After minification 24.4 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. Sowerbybroscycles.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.3 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (23%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sowerby Bros Cycles. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sowerbybroscycles.co.uk accessibility score

74

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

sowerbybroscycles.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

sowerbybroscycles.co.uk SEO score

90

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sowerbybroscycles.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Sowerbybroscycles.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 Sowerby Bros Cycles. 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: