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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

theglowcompany.co.uk

Solar Garden Lights, Home Lighting, Fairy Lights, Lava Lamps, Sensory and Disco Lights, Glow Sticks & Candles

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

195 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

311 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theglowcompany.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 195 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theglowcompany.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,880 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theglowcompany.co.uk

195 ms

www.glow.co.uk

515 ms

stylesheets.css

85 ms

theme.css

168 ms

open-sans.css

249 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Theglowcompany.co.uk, 94% (78 requests) were made to Glow.co.uk and 2% (2 requests) were made to Bat.bing.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (949 ms) relates to the external source Glow.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 400.2 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theglowcompany.co.uk main page is 3.3 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. 75% 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 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 160.6 kB

  • Original 183.7 kB
  • After minification 134.8 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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 48.9 kB, which is 27% 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 160.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 210.1 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. The Glow Company images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 23.5 kB

  • Original 160.0 kB
  • After minification 160.0 kB
  • After compression 136.5 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 23.5 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 121.5 kB
  • After minification 121.4 kB
  • After compression 115.4 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. Theglowcompany.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (19%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

57

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Glow Company. 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 from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

theglowcompany.co.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

theglowcompany.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

theglowcompany.co.uk SEO score

86

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Theglowcompany.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 Theglowcompany.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 The Glow Company. 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: