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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

cwatson.co.uk

Charles Watson Ironmongers - Supplying Trade & DIY to the UK

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

50 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

549 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cwatson.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 50 ms and then it took 5.8 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

cwatson.co.uk performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.149

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cwatson.co.uk

50 ms

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560 ms

css

37 ms

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30 ms

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28 ms

Our browser made a total of 163 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (146 requests) were addressed to the original Cwatson.co.uk, 7% (12 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to and 1% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Cwatson.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 847.0 kB (22%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cwatson.co.uk main page is 3.9 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 609.7 kB

  • Original 676.3 kB
  • After minification 616.7 kB
  • After compression 66.6 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 609.7 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 195.5 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. C Watson images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 34.3 kB

  • Original 334.3 kB
  • After minification 334.3 kB
  • After compression 300.1 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 69.8 kB
  • After minification 69.5 kB
  • After compression 62.3 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. Cwatson.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.5 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (23%)

Requests Now

158

After Optimization

121

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 158 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of C Watson. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

cwatson.co.uk accessibility score

87

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.

Best Practices

cwatson.co.uk best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cwatson.co.uk SEO score

74

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Cwatson.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 Cwatson.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

cwatson.co.uk

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