Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

velcro.co.uk

VELCRO® Brand Fastening Solutions | Velcro Companies

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

19 ms

Resources Loaded

327 ms

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

About Website

Welcome to velcro.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check VELCRO best content right away, or after learning these important things about velcro.co.uk

For decades, Velcro Companies has produced hook & loop fasteners for countless uses from picture hanging to the moon landing.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Velcro.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 19 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

velcro.co.uk performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,080 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

velcro.co.uk

19 ms

www.velcro.co.uk

40 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

82 ms

otSDKStub.js

98 ms

style.min.css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Velcro.co.uk, 82% (32 requests) were made to S23775.pcdn.co and 8% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (107 ms) relates to the external source S23775.pcdn.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 356.4 kB (12%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Velcro.co.uk main page is 2.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 240.2 kB

  • Original 356.9 kB
  • After minification 350.1 kB
  • After compression 116.6 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. 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 240.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. VELCRO images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 102.7 kB

  • Original 204.4 kB
  • After minification 199.9 kB
  • After compression 101.7 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 102.7 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 53.6 kB
  • After minification 53.6 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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. Velcro.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.5 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (19%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of VELCRO. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

velcro.co.uk accessibility score

92

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

velcro.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

velcro.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 Velcro.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 Velcro.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 VELCRO. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: