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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

boards4u.co.uk

Bespoke Chalkboard Handmade in the UK - Printed Blackboards & Whiteboards for sale - boards4u.co.uk

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

524 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

221 ms

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About Website

Welcome to boards4u.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Boards 4 U best content right away, or after learning these important things about boards4u.co.uk

Leading seller of blackboards, notice boards, whiteboard and chalkboard of all styles, sizes and prints. Our products are high quality and made in the UK. Order online with UK delivery.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boards4u.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 524 ms and then it took 1.9 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

boards4u.co.uk performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.221

56/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.boards4u.co.uk

524 ms

f64d1859cb26eb0a6c247af9d1da68f9.sept2015.css.php

88 ms

945d5df39bf0120cb31a5dd40cdda389.jquery.js.php

272 ms

a761fd3616a45fda4e7b839c17f48350.jqueryui.js.php

385 ms

56187531207336b68eefad0b24382ba8.sept2015.functions.js.php

319 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Boards4u.co.uk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (524 ms) belongs to the original domain Boards4u.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 50.1 kB (14%)

Content Size

348.6 kB

After Optimization

298.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Boards4u.co.uk main page is 348.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 198.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 25.5 kB

  • Original 33.2 kB
  • After minification 33.2 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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 25.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 198.1 kB
  • After minification 184.0 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. Boards 4 U images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 117.2 kB
  • After minification 117.2 kB
  • After compression 106.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (21%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boards 4 U. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.boards4u.co.uk

www.boards4u.co.uk

524 ms

f64d1859cb26eb0a6c247af9d1da68f9.sept2015.css.php

f64d1859cb26eb0a6c247af9d1da68f9.sept2015.css.php

88 ms

945d5df39bf0120cb31a5dd40cdda389.jquery.js.php

945d5df39bf0120cb31a5dd40cdda389.jquery.js.php

272 ms

a761fd3616a45fda4e7b839c17f48350.jqueryui.js.php

a761fd3616a45fda4e7b839c17f48350.jqueryui.js.php

385 ms

56187531207336b68eefad0b24382ba8.sept2015.functions.js.php

56187531207336b68eefad0b24382ba8.sept2015.functions.js.php

319 ms

9186509c12f470046cb3cb71d76f8e25.menu.js.php

9186509c12f470046cb3cb71d76f8e25.menu.js.php

237 ms

js

js

61 ms

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

96 ms

OpenSans-Semibold-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Semibold-webfont.woff

95 ms

chalkboard-texture015.jpg

chalkboard-texture015.jpg

130 ms

verify.php

verify.php

130 ms

button-gradient.png

button-gradient.png

130 ms

exterior.jpg

exterior.jpg

215 ms

BKB%20GROUP.JPG

BKB%20GROUP.JPG

140 ms

spacerv.gif

spacerv.gif

165 ms

BEW1001D25.jpg

BEW1001D25.jpg

239 ms

em-unframed-blackboards_1.jpg

em-unframed-blackboards_1.jpg

164 ms

CHALK%20PACKAGING%203%20WHITE.jpg

CHALK%20PACKAGING%203%20WHITE.jpg

217 ms

_DSC5051.jpg

_DSC5051.jpg

240 ms

LINK6.png

LINK6.png

243 ms

LINK5.png

LINK5.png

243 ms

LINK7.png

LINK7.png

289 ms

LINK1.png

LINK1.png

295 ms

LINK3.png

LINK3.png

317 ms

imgonline-com-ua-resize-TStfH0oSK2DO.jpg

imgonline-com-ua-resize-TStfH0oSK2DO.jpg

318 ms

WebHeader2_small3.gif

WebHeader2_small3.gif

394 ms

basket.png

basket.png

248 ms

search.png

search.png

295 ms

js

js

45 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

19 ms

OpenSans-Italic-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Italic-webfont.woff

267 ms

OpenSans-SemiboldItalic-webfont.woff

OpenSans-SemiboldItalic-webfont.woff

340 ms

Blueparker-071122.woff

Blueparker-071122.woff

273 ms

collect

collect

53 ms

collect

collect

31 ms

Accessibility Review

boards4u.co.uk accessibility score

92

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

boards4u.co.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

boards4u.co.uk 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Boards4u.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 Boards4u.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

boards4u.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Boards 4 U. 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: