Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

drainagecentral.co.uk

Brett Martin Guttering, Metal and Plastic Guttering, Drainage Solutions, Plumbing Parts & More | Drainage Central

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

drainagecentral.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to drainagecentral.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Drainage Central best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about drainagecentral.co.uk

Drainage Central offers a full and comprehensive range of guttering, plumbing and drainage products, including rainwater systems brett martin guttering, sewage treatment products and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Drainagecentral.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 8.3 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

drainagecentral.co.uk performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

drainagecentral.co.uk

277 ms

www.drainagecentral.co.uk

1954 ms

js

75 ms

js

121 ms

default

234 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Drainagecentral.co.uk, 11% (12 requests) were made to Rapidsitecdn.co.uk and 5% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Drainagecentral.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 213.2 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Drainagecentral.co.uk main page is 1.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 166.1 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Drainage Central images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 44.1 kB

  • Original 195.3 kB
  • After minification 195.3 kB
  • After compression 151.2 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 44.1 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-96%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 143 B
  • After compression 122 B

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. Drainagecentral.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.0 kB or 96% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (35%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

67

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Drainage Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

drainagecentral.co.uk accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

drainagecentral.co.uk best practices score

58

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

drainagecentral.co.uk SEO score

91

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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Drainagecentral.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Drainagecentral.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Drainage Central. 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: