Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

dcs.supplies

DCS Disposables and Catering Supplies - Disposables & Catering Supplies

Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

353 ms

Resources Loaded

8.3 sec

Page Rendered

51 ms

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About Website

Welcome to dcs.supplies homepage info - get ready to check DCS best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about dcs.supplies

Disposables & Catering Supplies (DCS) are the UK's leading wholesale catering and disposable suppliers based in Essex with products at affordable prices

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dcs.supplies page load time and found that the first response time was 353 ms and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dcs.supplies performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.105

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dcs.supplies

353 ms

www.dcs.supplies

753 ms

css

34 ms

62dab01335482de02ce600eb83ef1cb7.js

465 ms

bootstrap.css

475 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Dcs.supplies, 5% (3 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Dcs.supplies.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 373.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Dcs.supplies main page is 3.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 133.8 kB

  • Original 158.2 kB
  • After minification 146.5 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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 133.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 224.8 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. DCS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 241.0 kB
  • After minification 241.0 kB
  • After compression 228.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 43.7 kB
  • After minification 41.7 kB
  • After compression 40.9 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. Dcs.supplies has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (63%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DCS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dcs.supplies accessibility score

78

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

dcs.supplies 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

SEO Factors

dcs.supplies SEO score

73

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dcs.supplies 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 Dcs.supplies main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 DCS. 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: