Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

dctuk.com

Carpet tiles and flooring for the home and workplace | DCTUK

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

3 sec

dctuk.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dctuk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 180 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dctuk.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,510 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dctuk.com

180 ms

www.dctuk.com

606 ms

style.css

310 ms

newstyles.css

397 ms

font-awesome.min.css

354 ms

Our browser made a total of 151 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (131 requests) were addressed to the original Dctuk.com, 2% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Unpkg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (883 ms) belongs to the original domain Dctuk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 569.6 kB (4%)

Content Size

14.2 MB

After Optimization

13.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Dctuk.com main page is 14.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 13.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 223.2 kB

  • Original 265.5 kB
  • After minification 221.1 kB
  • After compression 42.3 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 44.5 kB, which is 17% 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 223.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 236.5 kB

  • Original 13.2 MB
  • After minification 13.0 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. DCTUK images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 48.0 kB

  • Original 477.8 kB
  • After minification 477.8 kB
  • After compression 429.8 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

-31%

Potential reduce by 61.8 kB

  • Original 197.3 kB
  • After minification 197.3 kB
  • After compression 135.5 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. Dctuk.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 61.8 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (29%)

Requests Now

141

After Optimization

100

The browser has sent 141 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DCTUK. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dctuk.com accessibility score

68

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

dctuk.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dctuk.com SEO score

76

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dctuk.com 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 Dctuk.com 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 DCTUK. 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: