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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

castlegatelights.com

Designer Lighting | Luxury Home Lighting | Castlegate Lights

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

376 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

179 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castlegatelights.com page load time and found that the first response time was 376 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

castlegatelights.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,580 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.333

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.castlegatelights.com

376 ms

www.castlegatelights.co.uk

594 ms

js

154 ms

EnhancedEcommerce,blank-251020231329-1.js

156 ms

gtm.js

123 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Castlegatelights.com, 43% (17 requests) were made to Castlegatelights.co.uk and 18% (7 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (874 ms) relates to the external source Salesiq.zoho.eu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 234.3 kB (42%)

Content Size

563.7 kB

After Optimization

329.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Castlegatelights.com main page is 563.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 294.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 234.2 kB

  • Original 294.9 kB
  • After minification 293.7 kB
  • After compression 60.7 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 234.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 208.2 kB
  • After minification 208.2 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. Castlegate Lights images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 101 B

  • Original 60.5 kB
  • After minification 60.5 kB
  • After compression 60.4 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 14 (44%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Castlegate Lights. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.castlegatelights.com

www.castlegatelights.com

376 ms

www.castlegatelights.co.uk

www.castlegatelights.co.uk

594 ms

js

js

154 ms

EnhancedEcommerce,blank-251020231329-1.js

EnhancedEcommerce,blank-251020231329-1.js

156 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

123 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

29 ms

js

js

152 ms

widget

widget

874 ms

fancy-input.css

fancy-input.css

276 ms

1525198926-17375900.jpg

1525198926-17375900.jpg

520 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

collect

collect

96 ms

montserrat-regular-webfont.woff

montserrat-regular-webfont.woff

464 ms

montserrat-500-webfont.woff

montserrat-500-webfont.woff

609 ms

montserrat-600-webfont.woff

montserrat-600-webfont.woff

590 ms

montserrat-bold-webfont.woff

montserrat-bold-webfont.woff

638 ms

eventemitter

eventemitter

582 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

144 ms

destination

destination

271 ms

destination

destination

217 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

168 ms

pptm.js

pptm.js

168 ms

Bm4lNY.js

Bm4lNY.js

346 ms

js

js

342 ms

js

js

343 ms

landing

landing

63 ms

icon.woff

icon.woff

353 ms

landing

landing

370 ms

muse.js

muse.js

277 ms

ts

ts

257 ms

index.html

index.html

42 ms

clk.min.js

clk.min.js

31 ms

ts

ts

68 ms

1708334766-38801400.jpg

1708334766-38801400.jpg

188 ms

1702912023-95224200.jpg

1702912023-95224200.jpg

97 ms

1709115273-35853400.jpg

1709115273-35853400.jpg

192 ms

1690294990-60431500.jpg

1690294990-60431500.jpg

86 ms

1690295032-79560000.jpg

1690295032-79560000.jpg

197 ms

1690295074-76086900.jpg

1690295074-76086900.jpg

168 ms

footer.css,footer-generic.css,footer-third-party.css,card-logos-png,back-to-top.css,site-footer,multisite-footer,blank-25102023132924-1.css

footer.css,footer-generic.css,footer-third-party.css,card-logos-png,back-to-top.css,site-footer,multisite-footer,blank-25102023132924-1.css

135 ms

Accessibility Review

castlegatelights.com accessibility score

74

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

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

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

castlegatelights.com 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

castlegatelights.com SEO score

89

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

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 Castlegatelights.com 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 Castlegatelights.com 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

castlegatelights.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Castlegate Lights. 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: