Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

longacres.co.uk

Longacres Garden Centres – Visit our Online Shop for Today’s Offers

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

233 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

473 ms

longacres.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to longacres.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Longacres best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about longacres.co.uk

Longacres, the largest independent garden centre in the UK. Based in Surrey, we supply everything for your home and garden, both in-store and online.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Longacres.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 233 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

longacres.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

longacres.co.uk

233 ms

longacres.co.uk

312 ms

www.longacres.co.uk

2468 ms

css

229 ms

js

386 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Longacres.co.uk, 4% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Widget.trustpilot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Longacres.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 269.2 kB (1%)

Content Size

18.5 MB

After Optimization

18.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Longacres.co.uk main page is 18.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 18.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 172.8 kB

  • Original 199.5 kB
  • After minification 196.4 kB
  • After compression 26.6 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 172.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 95.7 kB

  • Original 18.0 MB
  • After minification 17.9 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. Longacres images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 171 B

  • Original 213.2 kB
  • After minification 213.2 kB
  • After compression 213.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 464 B

  • Original 53.2 kB
  • After minification 53.2 kB
  • After compression 52.8 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. Longacres.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (13%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

60

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Longacres. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

longacres.co.uk accessibility score

85

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

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.

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>).

High

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

Best Practices

longacres.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

longacres.co.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Longacres.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 Longacres.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 Longacres. 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: