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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

welshwater.com

Your not-for-profit water company | Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

200 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

About Website

Visit welshwater.com now to see the best up-to-date Welsh Water content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about welshwater.com

We provide water to keep you healthy and clean waste water to protect your environment. We’re a not-for-profit water company which serves 3 million customers in Wales and parts of England every day.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Welshwater.com page load time and found that the first response time was 200 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

welshwater.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,050 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

welshwater.com

200 ms

www.dwrcymru.com

664 ms

otSDKStub.js

39 ms

main.css

318 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

292 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Welshwater.com, 53% (30 requests) were made to Dwrcymru.com and 14% (8 requests) were made to Cdn.synthetix.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (801 ms) relates to the external source Dwrcymru.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 39.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Welshwater.com main page is 1.1 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. Javascripts take 748.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 268 B

  • Original 204.3 kB
  • After minification 204.0 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. Welsh Water images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 36.6 kB

  • Original 748.7 kB
  • After minification 748.7 kB
  • After compression 712.2 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.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 98.8 kB
  • After minification 98.8 kB
  • After compression 96.6 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. Welshwater.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (39%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Welsh Water. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 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

welshwater.com accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

welshwater.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

welshwater.com 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Welshwater.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Welshwater.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Welsh Water. 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: