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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

watercressgroup.com

Home Improvement Financing that Works | Watercress Financial

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

369 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Watercressgroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 2.6 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

watercressgroup.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.067

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

watercressgroup.com

47 ms

watercressgroup.com

1666 ms

style.min.css

39 ms

style.css

36 ms

9bb154b7d0961c161fc7eb6fc78843db.min.css

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Watercressgroup.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Watercressgroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (76%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

511.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Watercressgroup.com main page is 2.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 71.7 kB

  • Original 88.5 kB
  • After minification 87.0 kB
  • After compression 16.8 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 71.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 41 B

  • Original 161.3 kB
  • After minification 161.3 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. Watercress Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 390.8 kB

  • Original 547.2 kB
  • After minification 546.0 kB
  • After compression 156.3 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 390.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 177.0 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. Watercressgroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (21%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Watercress Group. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

watercressgroup.com accessibility score

91

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

watercressgroup.com 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

watercressgroup.com SEO score

93

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

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 Watercressgroup.com 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 Watercressgroup.com 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 Watercress Group. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: