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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

blackcountryaquatics.co.uk

Black Country Aquatics - Aquarium Supplies in Oldbury

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

216 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

374 ms

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About Website

Welcome to blackcountryaquatics.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Black Country Aquatics best content right away, or after learning these important things about blackcountryaquatics.co.uk

Here at Black Country Aquatics we stock all you need to complete your dream aquarium - from bespoke tanks and filtration design to the very best Substrates, Rocks and Stones including Live and Plastic...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackcountryaquatics.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 216 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blackcountryaquatics.co.uk performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.045

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackcountryaquatics.co.uk

216 ms

www.blackcountryaquatics.co.uk

634 ms

bootstrap.min.css

44 ms

css

50 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Blackcountryaquatics.co.uk, 10% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (813 ms) belongs to the original domain Blackcountryaquatics.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 34.6 kB (2%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blackcountryaquatics.co.uk main page is 2.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 20.1 kB

  • Original 27.0 kB
  • After minification 25.3 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 20.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Black Country Aquatics images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 612 B

  • Original 429.2 kB
  • After minification 429.2 kB
  • After compression 428.6 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

-46%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 7.3 kB
  • After minification 7.3 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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. Blackcountryaquatics.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.4 kB or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (38%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Black Country Aquatics. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blackcountryaquatics.co.uk

blackcountryaquatics.co.uk

216 ms

www.blackcountryaquatics.co.uk

www.blackcountryaquatics.co.uk

634 ms

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44 ms

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50 ms

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49 ms

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72 ms

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145 ms

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36 ms

bootstrap.min.js

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37 ms

all.js

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417 ms

scrolltop.js

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211 ms

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282 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

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48 ms

js

js

77 ms

EcomJS

EcomJS

304 ms

blackcountryaquatics-logo.jpg

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386 ms

prestige-discus-header.jpg

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330 ms

AMDS-Logo.png

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449 ms

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558 ms

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290 ms

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688 ms

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64 ms

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44 ms

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Accessibility Review

blackcountryaquatics.co.uk accessibility score

81

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

blackcountryaquatics.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

blackcountryaquatics.co.uk SEO score

93

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Blackcountryaquatics.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 Blackcountryaquatics.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

blackcountryaquatics.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Black Country Aquatics. 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: