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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

gardenstone.co.uk

Gardenstone | Garden Paving, Decorative Edging, Stepping Stones & Patio Circles

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

291 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

487 ms

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About Website

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Quality natural stone garden paving, concrete paving, porcelain paving, edging, stepping stones and patio circles from a family business.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gardenstone.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 291 ms and then it took 4.4 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

gardenstone.co.uk performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gardenstone.co.uk

291 ms

www.gardenstone.co.uk

567 ms

styles.css

43 ms

uppy-custom.css

36 ms

wallets.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Gardenstone.co.uk, 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (976 ms) belongs to the original domain Gardenstone.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 219.3 kB (5%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gardenstone.co.uk main page is 4.4 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 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 73.3 kB

  • Original 90.5 kB
  • After minification 79.3 kB
  • After compression 17.2 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 11.1 kB, which is 12% 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 73.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 145.9 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Gardenstone images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 655 B
  • After minification 655 B
  • After compression 638 B

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

-0%

Potential reduce by 132 B

  • Original 60.1 kB
  • After minification 60.1 kB
  • After compression 60.0 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. Gardenstone.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (9%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

42

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gardenstone. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gardenstone.co.uk

gardenstone.co.uk

291 ms

www.gardenstone.co.uk

www.gardenstone.co.uk

567 ms

styles.css

styles.css

43 ms

uppy-custom.css

uppy-custom.css

36 ms

wallets.css

wallets.css

65 ms

se.css

se.css

26 ms

css2

css2

30 ms

gs-logo-landscape.svg

gs-logo-landscape.svg

21 ms

icon-account.svg

icon-account.svg

24 ms

icon-basket.svg

icon-basket.svg

23 ms

S6uyw4BMUTPHvxo.woff

S6uyw4BMUTPHvxo.woff

33 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVeww.woff

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVeww.woff

42 ms

ban-menu-Yorkstone-Paving.jpg

ban-menu-Yorkstone-Paving.jpg

472 ms

logo-trustpilot-white.svg

logo-trustpilot-white.svg

19 ms

ban-menu-Handy-Bag.jpg

ban-menu-Handy-Bag.jpg

36 ms

ban-menu-Bulk-Bag.jpg

ban-menu-Bulk-Bag.jpg

47 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

13 ms

js

js

54 ms

ban-menu-Garden-Planters.jpg

ban-menu-Garden-Planters.jpg

41 ms

ban-menu-garden-walling.jpg

ban-menu-garden-walling.jpg

29 ms

icon-gs-delivery.svg

icon-gs-delivery.svg

29 ms

icon-gs-sample.svg

icon-gs-sample.svg

40 ms

icon-gs-paypal.svg

icon-gs-paypal.svg

43 ms

icon-gs-trustpilot.svg

icon-gs-trustpilot.svg

42 ms

gs-home-hero-porcelain.jpeg

gs-home-hero-porcelain.jpeg

713 ms

img-new-badge.png

img-new-badge.png

51 ms

img-rated-excellent.png

img-rated-excellent.png

65 ms

porcelain-paving.jpeg

porcelain-paving.jpeg

64 ms

natural-stone.jpeg

natural-stone.jpeg

64 ms

Japanese_3000000082_4.jpg

Japanese_3000000082_4.jpg

66 ms

Border_Edging_-_Pale_Cotswold_-1_copy.jpg

Border_Edging_-_Pale_Cotswold_-1_copy.jpg

76 ms

john-salzarulo-wtjrpjZABcQ-unsplash.jpg

john-salzarulo-wtjrpjZABcQ-unsplash.jpg

70 ms

abbey_planter_001.jpeg

abbey_planter_001.jpeg

85 ms

traditional_stone_border_-_mature_cotswold.png

traditional_stone_border_-_mature_cotswold.png

88 ms

_random_stepping_stone_mature_vb_0036.jpg

_random_stepping_stone_mature_vb_0036.jpg

490 ms

rose_and_thistle_cropped1.jpg

rose_and_thistle_cropped1.jpg

90 ms

japanese-stepping-stone-5_1.jpg

japanese-stepping-stone-5_1.jpg

98 ms

img-about-gs.jpg

img-about-gs.jpg

692 ms

footer-landscape-gs.svg

footer-landscape-gs.svg

106 ms

footer-logo-madeinbritain.png

footer-logo-madeinbritain.png

116 ms

footer-logo-eti.png

footer-logo-eti.png

131 ms

footer-logo-bali.png

footer-logo-bali.png

132 ms

footer-logo-sgd.png

footer-logo-sgd.png

141 ms

footer-logo-planet.png

footer-logo-planet.png

145 ms

Wide-Colour-RGB.png

Wide-Colour-RGB.png

222 ms

footer-logo-apl.png

footer-logo-apl.png

220 ms

img-cards.svg

img-cards.svg

216 ms

mydesign-logo-ondark.svg

mydesign-logo-ondark.svg

422 ms

icon-coverage.svg

icon-coverage.svg

217 ms

icon-width-length.svg

icon-width-length.svg

208 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

623 ms

fa-light-300.ttf

fa-light-300.ttf

848 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

876 ms

fa-thin-100.ttf

fa-thin-100.ttf

976 ms

JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCuM70w9.woff

JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCuM70w9.woff

4 ms

JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCtr6Ew9.woff

JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCtr6Ew9.woff

12 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

fa-brands-400.ttf

969 ms

Accessibility Review

gardenstone.co.uk accessibility score

56

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

High

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

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible 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

gardenstone.co.uk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

gardenstone.co.uk SEO score

85

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

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

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 Gardenstone.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 Gardenstone.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

gardenstone.co.uk

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