Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

kitchenknives.co.uk

Professional Kitchen Knives at the UK's Best Prices - Established in 1899 - KitchenKnives.co.uk - KitchenKnives.co.uk

Page Load Speed

9.3 sec in total

First Response

267 ms

Resources Loaded

8 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

kitchenknives.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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

Since 1899, KitchenKnives.co.uk has been supplying the very best in professional kitchen knives from brands including Global, IO Shen, Tamahagane San Tsubame and Tojiro.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kitchenknives.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 267 ms and then it took 9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kitchenknives.co.uk performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,170 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.076

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kitchenknives.co.uk

267 ms

www.kitchenknives.co.uk

641 ms

6ac454c08eeeba761b62e2f54cd31b45.css

293 ms

7a99333060b3e63b62f0f4d8b2d066cf.js

589 ms

css

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 135 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (94 requests) were addressed to the original Kitchenknives.co.uk, 4% (6 requests) were made to Paypal-eu-cdn.cloudiq.com and 4% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Kitchenknives.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (13%)

Content Size

8.4 MB

After Optimization

7.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Kitchenknives.co.uk main page is 8.4 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. 85% 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 7.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 731.9 kB

  • Original 767.2 kB
  • After minification 317.2 kB
  • After compression 35.2 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 450.0 kB, which is 59% 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 731.9 kB or 95% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 357.7 kB

  • Original 7.5 MB
  • After minification 7.2 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. Kitchen Knives images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 419 B

  • Original 69.8 kB
  • After minification 69.8 kB
  • After compression 69.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 21.1 kB

  • Original 93.8 kB
  • After minification 93.8 kB
  • After compression 72.7 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. Kitchenknives.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.1 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (21%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

100

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kitchen Knives. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kitchenknives.co.uk accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

kitchenknives.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

kitchenknives.co.uk SEO score

80

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Kitchenknives.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 Kitchenknives.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 Kitchen Knives. 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: