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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

guardsman.co.uk

Home » Guardsman

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

719 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Guardsman content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about guardsman.co.uk

Guardsman, the home of furniture care & protection. A long-time leader in the furnishing industry, we know furniture! We have been protecting and repairing furniture since 1915 and always deliver qual...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Guardsman.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 4.7 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

guardsman.co.uk performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,130 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.167

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

guardsman.co.uk

159 ms

guardsman.co.uk

1303 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

23 ms

wjo6dfd.css

435 ms

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435 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Guardsman.co.uk, 11% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Guardsman.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 909.9 kB (26%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Guardsman.co.uk main page is 3.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 58.5 kB

  • Original 67.8 kB
  • After minification 44.0 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 23.9 kB, which is 35% 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 58.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 290.9 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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, Guardsman needs image optimization as it can save up to 290.9 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 237.1 kB

  • Original 726.0 kB
  • After minification 724.9 kB
  • After compression 488.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 237.1 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 323.5 kB

  • Original 450.8 kB
  • After minification 450.1 kB
  • After compression 127.4 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. Guardsman.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 323.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (25%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

46

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guardsman. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

guardsman.co.uk

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159 ms

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1303 ms

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23 ms

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435 ms

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577 ms

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575 ms

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8 ms

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616 ms

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676 ms

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935 ms

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Accessibility Review

guardsman.co.uk accessibility score

94

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.

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

guardsman.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

guardsman.co.uk SEO score

84

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Guardsman.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 Guardsman.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

guardsman.co.uk

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