Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

bluestone.ie

Bluestone Sales and Distribution

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

532 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

bluestone.ie screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Bluestone content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bluestone.ie

Bluestone are distributors of BRITA and other leading household brands supplying all major retail outlets in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bluestone.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 532 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bluestone.ie performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bluestone.ie

532 ms

autoptimize_16831416108090e21668e6d534d823b2.css

163 ms

autoptimize_single_c52d26841093461c4e9e9d119b53ad8a.css

236 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

34 ms

js

94 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Bluestone.ie, 13% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (656 ms) belongs to the original domain Bluestone.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 369.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Bluestone.ie main page is 4.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 124.1 kB

  • Original 170.9 kB
  • After minification 170.7 kB
  • After compression 46.8 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 124.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 244.2 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Bluestone images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 289.9 kB
  • After minification 289.9 kB
  • After compression 288.7 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 124 B

  • Original 37.4 kB
  • After minification 37.4 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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. Bluestone.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (18%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

66

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bluestone. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bluestone.ie accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible 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

bluestone.ie best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

bluestone.ie SEO score

84

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Bluestone.ie 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 Bluestone.ie 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 Bluestone. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: