Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

glow.co.uk

Solar Garden Lights, Home Lighting, Fairy Lights, Lava Lamps, Sensory and Disco Lights, Glow Sticks & Candles

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

176 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

268 ms

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About Website

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Home and Garden Lights, Fairy Lights, Disco Lights, Candles, Glow Sticks, Mood Lights, Lava Lamp, Light Up Sensory Toys and Glow in the Dark - The Glow Company

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glow.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 176 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

glow.co.uk performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,730 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

glow.co.uk

176 ms

www.glow.co.uk

342 ms

widgets.css

84 ms

style.css

171 ms

theme.css

168 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Glow.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Bat.bing.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (736 ms) belongs to the original domain Glow.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 739.0 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

958.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Glow.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 807.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 47.1 kB

  • Original 57.0 kB
  • After minification 47.8 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.2 kB, which is 16% 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 47.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 749.3 kB
  • After minification 736.2 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. Glow images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 606.5 kB

  • Original 807.2 kB
  • After minification 668.3 kB
  • After compression 200.7 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 606.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 72.4 kB

  • Original 83.6 kB
  • After minification 68.2 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. Glow.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 72.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (17%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glow. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

glow.co.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

glow.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

glow.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 Glow.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 Glow.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 Glow. 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: