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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

gutterspares.co.uk

UPVC Cladding, Fascia Boards, Soffit & Plastic Products

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

149 ms

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About Website

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Direct Plastics is a leading UK supplier of cellular plastic building products to DIY & Trade at low prices. Buy UPVC Cladding, Fascia Boards and more today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gutterspares.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gutterspares.co.uk performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value600 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.061

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gutterspares.co.uk

43 ms

www.directplastics.com

656 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

292 ms

banner.js

75 ms

cf-helper.js

301 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gutterspares.co.uk, 79% (42 requests) were made to Directplastics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Consent.cookiefirst.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (779 ms) relates to the external source Directplastics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 100.2 kB (13%)

Content Size

749.3 kB

After Optimization

649.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gutterspares.co.uk main page is 749.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 509.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 42.2 kB

  • Original 54.9 kB
  • After minification 48.3 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 6.6 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 42.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 33.5 kB

  • Original 509.8 kB
  • After minification 476.3 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. Gutterspares images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 158.5 kB
  • After minification 158.5 kB
  • After compression 141.9 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 16.6 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 26.1 kB
  • After minification 26.1 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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. Gutterspares.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.9 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (33%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gutterspares. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gutterspares.co.uk

gutterspares.co.uk

43 ms

www.directplastics.com

www.directplastics.com

656 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

292 ms

banner.js

banner.js

75 ms

cf-helper.js

cf-helper.js

301 ms

klaviyoHelper.js

klaviyoHelper.js

302 ms

site_697A0A0B230F3955CC4A4248F7A3FCD4.css

site_697A0A0B230F3955CC4A4248F7A3FCD4.css

391 ms

micromodal.css

micromodal.css

301 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

37 ms

slick.css

slick.css

300 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

389 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

30 ms

micromodal.min.js

micromodal.min.js

46 ms

site_CEC6E06F03E4D9DCFEC636AB650C9170.js

site_CEC6E06F03E4D9DCFEC636AB650C9170.js

486 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

54 ms

fo.js

fo.js

106 ms

bootstrap-grid.css

bootstrap-grid.css

417 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

500 ms

mstag.js

mstag.js

38 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

16 ms

bg-site.gif

bg-site.gif

118 ms

contact-sidebutton.png

contact-sidebutton.png

117 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

118 ms

icon-basket.gif

icon-basket.gif

118 ms

logo-white.png

logo-white.png

187 ms

B=2496-0x25.jpg

B=2496-0x25.jpg

187 ms

B=2501-0x25.jpg

B=2501-0x25.jpg

195 ms

B=2503-0x25.jpg

B=2503-0x25.jpg

195 ms

B=2505-0x25.jpg

B=2505-0x25.jpg

197 ms

B=5370-928x350.jpg

B=5370-928x350.jpg

389 ms

B=5286-928x350.jpg

B=5286-928x350.jpg

764 ms

B=4300-928x350.jpg

B=4300-928x350.jpg

670 ms

A=2756-200x200.png

A=2756-200x200.png

389 ms

A=4574-200x200.png

A=4574-200x200.png

389 ms

A=2678-200x200.png

A=2678-200x200.png

294 ms

A=1704-200x200.png

A=1704-200x200.png

488 ms

B=2549-0x25.jpg

B=2549-0x25.jpg

487 ms

B=2514-0x25.jpg

B=2514-0x25.jpg

486 ms

B=2509-0x25.jpg

B=2509-0x25.jpg

487 ms

B=2510-0x25.jpg

B=2510-0x25.jpg

585 ms

B=2511-0x25.jpg

B=2511-0x25.jpg

584 ms

B=2512-0x25.jpg

B=2512-0x25.jpg

585 ms

direct-plastics-twitter.gif

direct-plastics-twitter.gif

588 ms

direct-plastics-goodle-plus.gif

direct-plastics-goodle-plus.gif

685 ms

direct-plastics-facebook.gif

direct-plastics-facebook.gif

684 ms

logos-cards-1.png

logos-cards-1.png

681 ms

logos-cards-2.png

logos-cards-2.png

685 ms

WorldPay.gif

WorldPay.gif

769 ms

gutterspares-logo.png

gutterspares-logo.png

779 ms

bg-search-icon.gif

bg-search-icon.gif

766 ms

bullet-arrow.gif

bullet-arrow.gif

762 ms

37 ms

30 ms

Accessibility Review

gutterspares.co.uk accessibility score

82

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.

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

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

gutterspares.co.uk best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gutterspares.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

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

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 Gutterspares.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 Gutterspares.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

gutterspares.co.uk

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