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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

lowcostfireplaces.co.uk

Low Cost Fireplaces | Fireplaces & Fireplace Surrounds

Page Load Speed

12.2 sec in total

First Response

329 ms

Resources Loaded

11.4 sec

Page Rendered

400 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lowcostfireplaces.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 329 ms and then it took 11.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lowcostfireplaces.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value40.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lowcostfireplaces.co.uk

329 ms

www.lowcostfireplaces.co.uk

241 ms

www.lowcostfireplaces.co.uk

527 ms

a.min.css

171 ms

lib.js

489 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Lowcostfireplaces.co.uk, 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.1 sec) relates to the external source Via.placeholder.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 139.3 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lowcostfireplaces.co.uk main page is 1.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 817.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 133.1 kB

  • Original 149.8 kB
  • After minification 81.3 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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 68.5 kB, which is 46% 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 133.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 817.5 kB
  • After minification 814.1 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. Low Cost Fireplaces images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 204.3 kB
  • After minification 204.3 kB
  • After compression 202.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 44.6 kB
  • After minification 44.6 kB
  • After compression 43.3 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. Lowcostfireplaces.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (11%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Low Cost Fireplaces. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lowcostfireplaces.co.uk

lowcostfireplaces.co.uk

329 ms

www.lowcostfireplaces.co.uk

www.lowcostfireplaces.co.uk

241 ms

www.lowcostfireplaces.co.uk

www.lowcostfireplaces.co.uk

527 ms

a.min.css

a.min.css

171 ms

lib.js

lib.js

489 ms

platform.js

platform.js

33 ms

a.min.js

a.min.js

850 ms

platform.js

platform.js

37 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

136 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

113 ms

fff

fff

10105 ms

lcf_logo.svg

lcf_logo.svg

98 ms

hand.png

hand.png

182 ms

menu-icon.svg

menu-icon.svg

269 ms

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1520242798electric.jpg

271 ms

1520242790gas.jpg

1520242790gas.jpg

272 ms

1520242779cast.jpg

1520242779cast.jpg

273 ms

1520242703mantels.jpg

1520242703mantels.jpg

339 ms

1520242806stove.jpg

1520242806stove.jpg

341 ms

425 ms

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1662387961mediawalldesktop.jpg

748 ms

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741 ms

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522 ms

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509 ms

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741 ms

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740 ms

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740 ms

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123 ms

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pxiEyp8kv8JHgFVrFJA.ttf

141 ms

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149 ms

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149 ms

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pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLCz7V1s.ttf

143 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

867 ms

collect

collect

52 ms

js

js

66 ms

1520242798electric.jpg

1520242798electric.jpg

485 ms

1520242790gas.jpg

1520242790gas.jpg

490 ms

1520242779cast.jpg

1520242779cast.jpg

508 ms

1520242703mantels.jpg

1520242703mantels.jpg

443 ms

1520242806stove.jpg

1520242806stove.jpg

473 ms

1520242746inset.jpg

1520242746inset.jpg

482 ms

ajax.php

ajax.php

242 ms

lowcostmoney-logo.svg

lowcostmoney-logo.svg

139 ms

1559908497Dimplex-Logo-1449182926.jpg

1559908497Dimplex-Logo-1449182926.jpg

141 ms

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168 ms

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190 ms

1566900635Flamerite-logo-Copy.JPG

1566900635Flamerite-logo-Copy.JPG

227 ms

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228 ms

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251 ms

1644240587homepage.jpg

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274 ms

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282 ms

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298 ms

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313 ms

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315 ms

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335 ms

sagepay.png

sagepay.png

356 ms

klarna.svg

klarna.svg

367 ms

visa.png

visa.png

385 ms

mastercard.png

mastercard.png

405 ms

amex.png

amex.png

404 ms

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424 ms

klarna.svg

klarna.svg

87 ms

Accessibility Review

lowcostfireplaces.co.uk accessibility score

62

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

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

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

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

lowcostfireplaces.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

lowcostfireplaces.co.uk SEO score

83

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

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lowcostfireplaces.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 Lowcostfireplaces.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

lowcostfireplaces.co.uk

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