Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

dtcmerchants.co.uk

MKM Building Supplies | Your local experts

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

62 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

90 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dtcmerchants.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 62 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dtcmerchants.co.uk performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,130 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.298

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dtcmerchants.co.uk

62 ms

dtc-merchants-ltd-is-now-mkm

475 ms

dtc-merchants-ltd-is-now-mkm

1689 ms

gtm.js

119 ms

js

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 141 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Dtcmerchants.co.uk, 84% (119 requests) were made to Mkm.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Exp-api.mkm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Mkm.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (83%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

215.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Dtcmerchants.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 169.9 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 1.1 MB or 86% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 153 B

  • Original 45.6 kB
  • After minification 45.6 kB
  • After compression 45.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 129 (94%)

Requests Now

137

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 137 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dtcmerchants. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 130 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dtcmerchants.co.uk accessibility score

72

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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

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

dtcmerchants.co.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

dtcmerchants.co.uk SEO score

64

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Dtcmerchants.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 Dtcmerchants.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

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