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Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

flintsonline.co.uk

Flint Hire & Supply - The UK's No.1 Theatrical Chandler

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

381 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

207 ms

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About Website

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Established in 1981 to provide the theatre industry with a single source for specialist theatre hardware and paints, Flints cater for Stage Managers, Production Managers, Workshop Managers, Scenic A...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Flintsonline.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 381 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

flintsonline.co.uk performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.163

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

70/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

381 ms

normalize.css

95 ms

main.css

163 ms

grid.css

244 ms

tables.css

165 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Flintsonline.co.uk, 13% (5 requests) were made to Flints.co.uk and 11% (4 requests) were made to Addsearch.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Flints.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 179.8 kB (41%)

Content Size

441.0 kB

After Optimization

261.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Flintsonline.co.uk main page is 441.0 kB. 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. Images take 209.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 24.5 kB

  • Original 32.0 kB
  • After minification 26.5 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 5.5 kB, which is 17% 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 24.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 209.3 kB
  • After minification 205.8 kB

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. Flint Sonline images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 77.2 kB

  • Original 113.0 kB
  • After minification 74.3 kB
  • After compression 35.8 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 77.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 74.5 kB

  • Original 86.7 kB
  • After minification 59.4 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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. Flintsonline.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 74.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (69%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Flint Sonline. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

381 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

95 ms

main.css

main.css

163 ms

grid.css

grid.css

244 ms

tables.css

tables.css

165 ms

forms.css

forms.css

245 ms

bjqs.css

bjqs.css

167 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

34 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

183 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

25 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

28 ms

bjqs-1.3.js

bjqs-1.3.js

275 ms

jquery.bxslider.js

jquery.bxslider.js

329 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

jquery.bxslider.css

276 ms

31 ms

jquery-1.12.1.min.js

jquery-1.12.1.min.js

32 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

276 ms

main.js

main.js

328 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

96 ms

1(1).png

1(1).png

858 ms

flint_logo_normal.png

flint_logo_normal.png

257 ms

mainname.gif

mainname.gif

105 ms

plasa_focus_2023.webp

plasa_focus_2023.webp

108 ms

flints_footer_2020.jpg

flints_footer_2020.jpg

264 ms

2(1).png

2(1).png

960 ms

3(1).png

3(1).png

1213 ms

plasa_focus_2023.webp

plasa_focus_2023.webp

986 ms

AAAAAA-20.png

AAAAAA-20.png

9 ms

51 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

49 ms

AAAAAA-20.png

AAAAAA-20.png

43 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

32 ms

collect

collect

47 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

6 ms

96 ms

collect

collect

103 ms

js

js

116 ms

edinburgh_banner_2022.png

edinburgh_banner_2022.png

742 ms

Accessibility Review

flintsonline.co.uk accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

flintsonline.co.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

flintsonline.co.uk SEO score

86

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Flintsonline.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Flintsonline.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

flintsonline.co.uk

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