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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

epik.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

289 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Epik content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about epik.co.uk

The West Midlands one stop shop for all your branded and promotional personalised goods. From stationary to hi tech gadgets and even workwear, you name it we will source it and personailise it for you...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Epik.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 4.5 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

epik.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value510 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.87

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

epik.co.uk

182 ms

epik.co.uk

2027 ms

bootstrap.min.css

499 ms

responsive.css

252 ms

colours.css

303 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Epik.co.uk, 6% (3 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Epik.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (43%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Epik.co.uk main page is 2.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 106.9 kB

  • Original 117.5 kB
  • After minification 71.8 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 45.7 kB, which is 39% 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 106.9 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 922.7 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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, Epik needs image optimization as it can save up to 922.7 kB or 39% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 58.9 kB
  • After minification 58.7 kB
  • After compression 56.9 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

-83%

Potential reduce by 110.6 kB

  • Original 132.9 kB
  • After minification 129.9 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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. Epik.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 110.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (24%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

35

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Epik. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

epik.co.uk

epik.co.uk

182 ms

epik.co.uk

epik.co.uk

2027 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

499 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

252 ms

colours.css

colours.css

303 ms

css

css

43 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

33 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

37 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

41 ms

clamp.js

clamp.js

257 ms

autoclamp.js

autoclamp.js

264 ms

gdpr_and_marketing.js

gdpr_and_marketing.js

274 ms

js

js

74 ms

ga.js

ga.js

79 ms

v2.zopim.com

v2.zopim.com

136 ms

1160x218h.png

1160x218h.png

1651 ms

768x272h.png

768x272h.png

582 ms

img_002.jpg

img_002.jpg

315 ms

img_005.jpg

img_005.jpg

332 ms

img_001.jpg

img_001.jpg

236 ms

quick-search.png

quick-search.png

151 ms

quick-catalogue.png

quick-catalogue.png

237 ms

express-3daysw.png

express-3daysw.png

323 ms

product-bags-i.png

product-bags-i.png

490 ms

product-leather-i.png

product-leather-i.png

566 ms

express-5daysw.png

express-5daysw.png

410 ms

product-clothing-i.png

product-clothing-i.png

514 ms

product-leisure-i.png

product-leisure-i.png

580 ms

express-7daysw.png

express-7daysw.png

574 ms

product-drinkware-i.png

product-drinkware-i.png

689 ms

product-lowcost-i.png

product-lowcost-i.png

658 ms

express-10daysw.png

express-10daysw.png

660 ms

product-glassware-i.png

product-glassware-i.png

754 ms

product-pens-i.png

product-pens-i.png

1221 ms

400x400.jpg

400x400.jpg

742 ms

400x400.jpg

400x400.jpg

745 ms

400x400.jpg

400x400.jpg

778 ms

400x400.jpg

400x400.jpg

826 ms

400x400.jpg

400x400.jpg

829 ms

400x400.jpg

400x400.jpg

839 ms

400x400.jpg

400x400.jpg

866 ms

400x400.jpg

400x400.jpg

910 ms

400x400.jpg

400x400.jpg

913 ms

400x400.jpg

400x400.jpg

926 ms

facebook-48.png

facebook-48.png

954 ms

x-48.png

x-48.png

994 ms

font

font

64 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

937 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

15 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

19 ms

asset_composer.js

asset_composer.js

55 ms

Accessibility Review

epik.co.uk accessibility score

90

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

epik.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

epik.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Epik.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 Epik.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

epik.co.uk

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