Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

jwgrant.co.uk

JW Grant | Builders Merchants | Glasgow, Paisley, Coatbridge, Kilmarnock, Maryhill

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

438 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

305 ms

jwgrant.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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JW Grant is one of Scotland’s largest independent builder’s merchants. Building and landscaping tools and materials available to buy online.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Jwgrant.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 438 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

jwgrant.co.uk performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value39,770 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.311

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value62.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

jwgrant.co.uk

438 ms

www.jwgrant.co.uk

1046 ms

font-awesome.min.css

55 ms

css

73 ms

normalize.css

241 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Jwgrant.co.uk, 21% (19 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 10% (9 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Jwgrant.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 815.5 kB (29%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Jwgrant.co.uk main page is 2.8 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. 75% 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 15.6 kB
  • After minification 14.7 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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. 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 11.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. JW Grant images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 539.0 kB

  • Original 844.4 kB
  • After minification 820.4 kB
  • After compression 305.4 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 539.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 255.9 kB

  • Original 308.8 kB
  • After minification 292.9 kB
  • After compression 52.9 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. Jwgrant.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 255.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (40%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of JW Grant. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

jwgrant.co.uk accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

jwgrant.co.uk best practices score

58

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

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

jwgrant.co.uk SEO score

75

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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Jwgrant.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Jwgrant.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 JW Grant. 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: