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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

homehardwaredirect.co.uk

Home Hardware Direct - For all your Household, DIY, Garden & Outdoor Needs

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

278 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

664 ms

homehardwaredirect.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Home Hardware Direct - thousands of products for your home & garden available to buy online or collect in-store. Choose from our extensive range of products for Household, DIY, Garden and Outdoor

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homehardwaredirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 278 ms and then it took 3.3 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

homehardwaredirect.co.uk performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homehardwaredirect.co.uk

278 ms

www.homehardwaredirect.co.uk

680 ms

_normalize.css

206 ms

_layout.css

544 ms

mobileslider.css

241 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Homehardwaredirect.co.uk, 20% (8 requests) were made to Cdn.centrumweb.co.uk and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (775 ms) belongs to the original domain Homehardwaredirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 229.5 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homehardwaredirect.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. Images take 994.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 19.5 kB
  • After minification 15.4 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 4.2 kB, which is 21% 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 14.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 994.4 kB
  • After minification 979.9 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. Home Hardware Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 148.5 kB

  • Original 229.6 kB
  • After minification 227.7 kB
  • After compression 81.1 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 148.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 52.0 kB

  • Original 62.0 kB
  • After minification 45.6 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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. Homehardwaredirect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (43%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Hardware Direct. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

homehardwaredirect.co.uk

homehardwaredirect.co.uk

278 ms

www.homehardwaredirect.co.uk

www.homehardwaredirect.co.uk

680 ms

_normalize.css

_normalize.css

206 ms

_layout.css

_layout.css

544 ms

mobileslider.css

mobileslider.css

241 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

761 ms

packery.pkgd.min.js

packery.pkgd.min.js

581 ms

imagesloaded.min.js

imagesloaded.min.js

376 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

331 ms

home.css

home.css

309 ms

Modernizr2.7.1.js

Modernizr2.7.1.js

471 ms

infieldlabel.min.js

infieldlabel.min.js

262 ms

sidr.min.js

sidr.min.js

388 ms

cycle2.js

cycle2.js

487 ms

cycle2.swipe.min.js

cycle2.swipe.min.js

404 ms

GlobalScr.js

GlobalScr.js

130 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

138 ms

Logo.png

Logo.png

137 ms

Banner1.jpg

Banner1.jpg

775 ms

Lawnmower.jpg

Lawnmower.jpg

600 ms

179964_540631.jpg

179964_540631.jpg

758 ms

HDY0001.jpg

HDY0001.jpg

226 ms

DEG0020.jpg

DEG0020.jpg

472 ms

sco0208.jpg

sco0208.jpg

310 ms

FLY0209.jpg

FLY0209.jpg

341 ms

FLY0080.jpg

FLY0080.jpg

463 ms

STR0036.jpg

STR0036.jpg

572 ms

HOS0121.jpg

HOS0121.jpg

590 ms

RNS0580.jpg

RNS0580.jpg

594 ms

SagePay.jpg

SagePay.jpg

676 ms

Roboto-Regular-webfont.woff

Roboto-Regular-webfont.woff

587 ms

OpenSans-Bold-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Bold-webfont.woff

612 ms

Roboto-Black-webfont.woff

Roboto-Black-webfont.woff

610 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

692 ms

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

706 ms

collect

collect

86 ms

collect

collect

76 ms

count.asp

count.asp

667 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

44 ms

sImage.gif

sImage.gif

103 ms

Accessibility Review

homehardwaredirect.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.

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

homehardwaredirect.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

SEO Factors

homehardwaredirect.co.uk SEO score

98

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

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 Homehardwaredirect.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 Homehardwaredirect.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

homehardwaredirect.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Home Hardware Direct. 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: