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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

buildstore.co.uk

Homepage | BuildStore

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

246 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

511 ms

buildstore.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buildstore.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 246 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buildstore.co.uk performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buildstore.co.uk

246 ms

buildstore.co.uk

345 ms

www.buildstore.co.uk

253 ms

www.buildstore.co.uk

776 ms

app.95f98027cf2abba165936974687923bc.css

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Buildstore.co.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to T.gatorleads.co.uk and 8% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (776 ms) belongs to the original domain Buildstore.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 181.7 kB (70%)

Content Size

258.5 kB

After Optimization

76.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buildstore.co.uk main page is 258.5 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. Javascripts take 124.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 93.3 kB

  • Original 114.8 kB
  • After minification 91.1 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 23.7 kB, which is 21% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 93.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 458 B

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Obviously, Build Store needs image optimization as it can save up to 458 B or 31% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 88.0 kB

  • Original 124.8 kB
  • After minification 124.8 kB
  • After compression 36.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 88.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 30 B

  • Original 17.5 kB
  • After minification 17.5 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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. Buildstore.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (50%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Build Store. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

buildstore.co.uk

buildstore.co.uk

246 ms

buildstore.co.uk

buildstore.co.uk

345 ms

www.buildstore.co.uk

www.buildstore.co.uk

253 ms

www.buildstore.co.uk

www.buildstore.co.uk

776 ms

app.95f98027cf2abba165936974687923bc.css

app.95f98027cf2abba165936974687923bc.css

83 ms

uc.js

uc.js

33 ms

critical.da1266ddc307bccd130dc4bd7dfb7182.js

critical.da1266ddc307bccd130dc4bd7dfb7182.js

163 ms

a65c0b15-aee3-435d-966b-7e60b877e6cd.js

a65c0b15-aee3-435d-966b-7e60b877e6cd.js

485 ms

plugin.js

plugin.js

445 ms

plugin.css

plugin.css

393 ms

ls.respimg.js

ls.respimg.js

150 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

81 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

33 ms

buildstore-default.svg

buildstore-default.svg

123 ms

icon-email.svg

icon-email.svg

273 ms

icon-search.svg

icon-search.svg

275 ms

BgDiagNarrowSupportBlack.png

BgDiagNarrowSupportBlack.png

345 ms

BgDiagNarrowFinanceAqua.png

BgDiagNarrowFinanceAqua.png

354 ms

open-sans-v17-latin-300.woff

open-sans-v17-latin-300.woff

350 ms

open-sans-v17-latin-regular.woff

open-sans-v17-latin-regular.woff

432 ms

open-sans-v17-latin-600.woff

open-sans-v17-latin-600.woff

428 ms

open-sans-v17-latin-700.woff

open-sans-v17-latin-700.woff

403 ms

js

js

77 ms

145 ms

Accessibility Review

buildstore.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.

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

buildstore.co.uk best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

buildstore.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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Buildstore.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 Buildstore.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

buildstore.co.uk

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