Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

decathlon.uk

Decathlon | Sports Shoes, Sports Gear & Sports Equipment

Page Load Speed

19.1 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

14.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Decathlon.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 19 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

decathlon.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,970 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

decathlon.uk

43 ms

www.decathlon.co.uk

37 ms

www.decathlon.co.uk

1071 ms

af1c24dae338f115.css

128 ms

9d173ceb2f67ab41.css

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Decathlon.uk, 52% (56 requests) were made to Decathlon.co.uk and 47% (51 requests) were made to Contents.mediadecathlon.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.6 sec) relates to the external source Contents.mediadecathlon.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 899.4 kB (82%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

201.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Decathlon.uk main page is 1.1 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. HTML takes 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 887.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 145.6 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 887.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 20 B

  • Original 21.3 kB
  • After minification 21.3 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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

-26%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 47.2 kB
  • After minification 47.2 kB
  • After compression 34.8 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. Decathlon.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.5 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (50%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Decathlon. 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 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

decathlon.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

decathlon.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

decathlon.uk SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Decathlon.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 Decathlon.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

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