Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

helmsman.co.uk

Lockers & Cubicles by Helmsman | Standard and Bespoke Lockers

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

161 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

500 ms

helmsman.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Lockers and cubicles manufacturer based in Suffolk specialising in standard and bespoke lockers and cubicles for schools and leisure centres.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Helmsman.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 161 ms and then it took 2.8 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

helmsman.co.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,170 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.078

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

helmsman.co.uk

161 ms

helmsman.co.uk

412 ms

306 ms

css

131 ms

css

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Helmsman.co.uk, 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 10% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (878 ms) belongs to the original domain Helmsman.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 549.8 kB (31%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Helmsman.co.uk main page is 1.8 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. Javascripts take 668.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 69.2 kB

  • Original 92.6 kB
  • After minification 92.6 kB
  • After compression 23.4 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 69.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 21.8 kB

  • Original 605.8 kB
  • After minification 583.9 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. Helmsman images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 135.1 kB

  • Original 668.9 kB
  • After minification 662.3 kB
  • After compression 533.8 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 135.1 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 323.6 kB

  • Original 384.5 kB
  • After minification 383.8 kB
  • After compression 60.9 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. Helmsman.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 323.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (54%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Helmsman. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

helmsman.co.uk accessibility score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

helmsman.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

helmsman.co.uk SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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