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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

directwatertanks.co.uk

Water Tanks | IBC Containers | Plastic, Steel & GRP - Direct Water Tanks

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

193 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Visit directwatertanks.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Direct Water Tanks content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about directwatertanks.co.uk

Supplier of the largest ranges of water storage tanks in the UK including IBC containers, cold water loft tanks and rainwater harvesting tanks and systems.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directwatertanks.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 193 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

directwatertanks.co.uk performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,180 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

directwatertanks.co.uk

193 ms

www.directwatertanks.co.uk

1166 ms

styles.min.css

245 ms

require.min.js

232 ms

requirejs-min-resolver.min.js

233 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Directwatertanks.co.uk, 47% (46 requests) were made to Img.directwatertanks.co.uk and 8% (8 requests) were made to Static.klaviyo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Directwatertanks.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 555.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Directwatertanks.co.uk main page is 3.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 188.2 kB

  • Original 224.7 kB
  • After minification 188.3 kB
  • After compression 36.5 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 36.5 kB, which is 16% 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 188.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 350.6 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Obviously, Direct Water Tanks needs image optimization as it can save up to 350.6 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 148.0 kB
  • After minification 148.0 kB
  • After compression 131.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 16.4 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 36 B

  • Original 117.7 kB
  • After minification 117.7 kB
  • After compression 117.6 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. Directwatertanks.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (42%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

53

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Direct Water Tanks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

directwatertanks.co.uk

directwatertanks.co.uk

193 ms

www.directwatertanks.co.uk

www.directwatertanks.co.uk

1166 ms

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245 ms

require.min.js

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232 ms

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233 ms

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242 ms

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244 ms

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309 ms

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70 ms

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29 ms

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63 ms

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476 ms

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477 ms

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473 ms

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474 ms

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472 ms

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475 ms

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533 ms

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533 ms

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551 ms

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552 ms

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634 ms

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637 ms

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612 ms

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723 ms

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631 ms

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632 ms

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767 ms

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874 ms

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876 ms

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724 ms

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799 ms

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770 ms

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811 ms

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847 ms

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850 ms

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880 ms

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887 ms

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932 ms

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932 ms

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959 ms

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955 ms

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963 ms

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968 ms

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1006 ms

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1007 ms

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1032 ms

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139 ms

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350 ms

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480 ms

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346 ms

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220 ms

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192 ms

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51 ms

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474 ms

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432 ms

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471 ms

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457 ms

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johns.jpg

568 ms

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1024 ms

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656 ms

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695 ms

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695 ms

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715 ms

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588 ms

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668 ms

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772 ms

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Accessibility Review

directwatertanks.co.uk accessibility score

94

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

directwatertanks.co.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

directwatertanks.co.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 Directwatertanks.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 Directwatertanks.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

directwatertanks.co.uk

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