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Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

waterrates.co.uk

Water Rates — Compare UK Business Water Rates & Suppliers

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

368 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

88 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waterrates.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 368 ms and then it took 1.7 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

waterrates.co.uk performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.09

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

waterrates.co.uk

368 ms

waterrates.co.uk

307 ms

share.min.css

289 ms

genericons.min.css

362 ms

style.css

401 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Waterrates.co.uk, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (957 ms) belongs to the original domain Waterrates.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 20.6 kB (43%)

Content Size

48.1 kB

After Optimization

27.5 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Waterrates.co.uk main page is 48.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 27.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 27.1 kB
  • After minification 27.1 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 20.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (84%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

3

  • AJAX
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Water Rates. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

waterrates.co.uk accessibility score

97

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

waterrates.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

waterrates.co.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Waterrates.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 Waterrates.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 PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: