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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

gds.co.uk

Garage Management software | GDS

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

692 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

368 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gds.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 692 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gds.co.uk performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.087

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gds.co.uk

692 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

160 ms

A.1502316906index.css.pagespeed.cf.SzHHWZVYrJ.css

318 ms

css

44 ms

A.1502318262index.css.pagespeed.cf.KmaVaf5-8J.css

888 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Gds.co.uk, 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (888 ms) belongs to the original domain Gds.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (66%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

632.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gds.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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 839.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 39.7 kB

  • Original 48.7 kB
  • After minification 44.4 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 39.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 317 B

  • Original 343.9 kB
  • After minification 343.6 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. GDS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 467.6 kB

  • Original 642.6 kB
  • After minification 609.6 kB
  • After compression 175.0 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 467.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 735.1 kB

  • Original 839.6 kB
  • After minification 836.2 kB
  • After compression 104.5 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. Gds.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 735.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (46%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GDS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.gds.co.uk

www.gds.co.uk

692 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

160 ms

A.1502316906index.css.pagespeed.cf.SzHHWZVYrJ.css

A.1502316906index.css.pagespeed.cf.SzHHWZVYrJ.css

318 ms

css

css

44 ms

A.1502318262index.css.pagespeed.cf.KmaVaf5-8J.css

A.1502318262index.css.pagespeed.cf.KmaVaf5-8J.css

888 ms

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647 ms

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81 ms

js

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33 ms

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293 ms

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160 ms

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161 ms

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239 ms

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243 ms

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294 ms

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319 ms

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323 ms

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371 ms

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767 ms

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398 ms

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404 ms

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450 ms

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477 ms

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117 ms

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107 ms

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109 ms

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108 ms

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109 ms

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239 ms

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179 ms

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179 ms

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179 ms

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238 ms

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240 ms

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246 ms

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245 ms

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246 ms

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498 ms

Accessibility Review

gds.co.uk accessibility score

86

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

gds.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

gds.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Gds.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 Gds.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

gds.co.uk

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