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Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

spruceup.co.uk

Spruce Up! UK Home Improvement Price Comparison Site

Page Load Speed

640 ms in total

First Response

115 ms

Resources Loaded

525 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spruceup.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 115 ms and then it took 525 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

spruceup.co.uk performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

spruceup.co.uk

115 ms

spruceup.co.uk

272 ms

lazyload.min.js

118 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Spruceup.co.uk, 33% (1 request) were made to Cdn.spruceup.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (272 ms) belongs to the original domain Spruceup.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 242.9 kB (86%)

Content Size

282.3 kB

After Optimization

39.4 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Spruceup.co.uk main page is 282.3 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 279.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 242.7 kB

  • Original 279.2 kB
  • After minification 274.8 kB
  • After compression 36.5 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 242.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 233 B

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Spruce Up. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

spruceup.co.uk accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

spruceup.co.uk best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

spruceup.co.uk SEO score

98

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

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 Spruceup.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 Spruceup.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 data is detected on the main page of Spruce Up. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: