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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

buildersemporium.co.uk

Online Building Supplies & DIY | Builders Emporium

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

788 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

buildersemporium.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Builders Emporium content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about buildersemporium.co.uk

Builders Emporium supply a wide range of building, DIY, home improvement tools and products. Explore our extensive online catalogue today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buildersemporium.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 788 ms and then it took 4.9 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

buildersemporium.co.uk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,230 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.buildersemporium.co.uk

788 ms

main.css

51 ms

main.js

40 ms

preloads.js

63 ms

load_feature-f4e7948c1c9e4f45ef404dbb8b5dbcaa265bad73ea228bf111efe71177b448d9.js

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 115 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (103 requests) were addressed to the original Buildersemporium.co.uk, 3% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.shopify.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Widget.trustpilot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (948 ms) belongs to the original domain Buildersemporium.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 291.6 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buildersemporium.co.uk main page is 2.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 289.4 kB

  • Original 345.4 kB
  • After minification 316.4 kB
  • After compression 56.0 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 289.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Builders Emporium images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 681 B

  • Original 567.6 kB
  • After minification 567.6 kB
  • After compression 566.9 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 34.6 kB
  • After minification 34.6 kB
  • After compression 33.0 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. Buildersemporium.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (45%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

63

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Builders Emporium. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.buildersemporium.co.uk

www.buildersemporium.co.uk

788 ms

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main.css

51 ms

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40 ms

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679 ms

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Accessibility Review

buildersemporium.co.uk accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

buildersemporium.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

buildersemporium.co.uk SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Buildersemporium.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 Buildersemporium.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

buildersemporium.co.uk

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