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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

bhs.co.uk

BHS | Shop Lighting, Bedding & Textiles

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

120 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

427 ms

bhs.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit bhs.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date BHS content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bhs.co.uk

Welcome to British Home Stores. Shop Online Today For Quality Lighting, Bedding & Textiles with BHS. Fast & Free Delivery Available, Shop Now!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bhs.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 120 ms and then it took 3.5 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

bhs.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,730 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bhs.co.uk

120 ms

www.bhs.com

478 ms

css2

69 ms

font-awesome.min.css

65 ms

logo_m.png

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bhs.co.uk, 86% (105 requests) were made to Bhs.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (561 ms) relates to the external source Bhs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 291.8 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bhs.co.uk main page is 1.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 291.4 kB

  • Original 342.4 kB
  • After minification 341.8 kB
  • After compression 51.1 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 291.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. BHS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 79 B

  • Original 23.9 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 361 B

  • Original 160.5 kB
  • After minification 160.5 kB
  • After compression 160.1 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. Bhs.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (51%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

57

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BHS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bhs.co.uk

bhs.co.uk

120 ms

www.bhs.com

www.bhs.com

478 ms

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css2

69 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

65 ms

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31 ms

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148 ms

logo.png

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41 ms

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121 ms

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39 ms

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59 ms

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69 ms

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81 ms

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86 ms

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160 ms

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87 ms

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94 ms

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90 ms

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90 ms

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200 ms

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198 ms

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195 ms

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275 ms

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292 ms

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344 ms

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208 ms

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153 ms

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218 ms

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222 ms

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226 ms

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233 ms

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228 ms

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243 ms

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241 ms

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248 ms

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252 ms

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259 ms

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263 ms

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264 ms

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268 ms

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274 ms

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278 ms

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276 ms

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270 ms

css

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28 ms

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254 ms

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259 ms

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307 ms

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258 ms

static.min.js

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258 ms

mixins.min.js

mixins.min.js

257 ms

requirejs-config.min.js

requirejs-config.min.js

257 ms

custom.min.js

custom.min.js

347 ms

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paisley-flush-chandelier-antique-brass_c01-39001142_1.jpg

336 ms

barley-spotlight-bar-satin-brass-c01-31723bh-sbrs.jpg

barley-spotlight-bar-satin-brass-c01-31723bh-sbrs.jpg

324 ms

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270 ms

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287 ms

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364 ms

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icon-subscribe.svg

279 ms

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357 ms

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214 ms

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info-icon2.svg

290 ms

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209 ms

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211 ms

logo-footer.png

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208 ms

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202 ms

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203 ms

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201 ms

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258 ms

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icon-fb.svg

257 ms

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icon-youtube.svg

255 ms

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js-translation.json

297 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

139 ms

load

load

244 ms

561 ms

js

js

51 ms

core.js

core.js

46 ms

destination

destination

310 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

308 ms

destination

destination

306 ms

destination

destination

305 ms

icon-search.svg

icon-search.svg

268 ms

link-separator.png

link-separator.png

268 ms

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164 ms

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26 ms

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116 ms

collect

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11 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

77 ms

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83 ms

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17 ms

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106 ms

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103 ms

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56 ms

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102 ms

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110 ms

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58 ms

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59 ms

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59 ms

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60 ms

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71 ms

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73 ms

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75 ms

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77 ms

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104 ms

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106 ms

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109 ms

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204 ms

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201 ms

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147 ms

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52 ms

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148 ms

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27 ms

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117 ms

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361 ms

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107 ms

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105 ms

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105 ms

Accessibility Review

bhs.co.uk accessibility score

90

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bhs.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bhs.co.uk SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Bhs.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 Bhs.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

bhs.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of BHS. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: