Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

buildabear.co.uk

Build-A-Bear Workshop® | Shop All The Stuff You Love

Page Load Speed

142 ms in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

74 ms

Page Rendered

53 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buildabear.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 127 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buildabear.co.uk performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,690 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.869

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buildabear.co.uk

15 ms

www.buildabear.co.uk

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Buildabear.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (52 ms) belongs to the original domain Buildabear.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 720.2 kB (23%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Buildabear.co.uk main page is 3.1 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 92 B

  • Original 294 B
  • After minification 290 B
  • After compression 202 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. 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 92 B or 31% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 106.4 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Build A Bear images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 334.8 kB

  • Original 519.5 kB
  • After minification 512.2 kB
  • After compression 184.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 334.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 278.9 kB

  • Original 360.1 kB
  • After minification 359.9 kB
  • After compression 81.2 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. Buildabear.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 278.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

buildabear.co.uk accessibility score

89

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

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.

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

buildabear.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

buildabear.co.uk SEO score

84

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Buildabear.co.uk 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 Buildabear.co.uk 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 Build A Bear. 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: