Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

meadeuk.com

Meade Instruments UK © Opticstar Ltd & Meade Instruments Corp

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

246 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

meadeuk.com screenshot

About Website

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Meade Instruments UK website by Opticstar Ltd, official importer of Meade Instruments Corp products in the United Kingdom.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Meadeuk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 246 ms and then it took 3.9 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

meadeuk.com performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.198

62/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

meadeuk.com

246 ms

meadeuk.com

403 ms

gk-reset-001.css

92 ms

gk-default-002.css

197 ms

jquery-3.7.1.min.js

302 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Meadeuk.com, 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (921 ms) belongs to the original domain Meadeuk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 326.5 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Meadeuk.com main page is 2.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 96.9 kB

  • Original 110.5 kB
  • After minification 109.4 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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 96.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 160.9 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Meade UK images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 49.6 kB

  • Original 183.9 kB
  • After minification 183.0 kB
  • After compression 134.2 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 49.6 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 33.5 kB
  • After minification 33.5 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. Meadeuk.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.0 kB or 57% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (21%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

67

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Meade UK. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

meadeuk.com accessibility score

84

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.

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

Best Practices

meadeuk.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

meadeuk.com SEO score

85

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

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 Meadeuk.com 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 Meadeuk.com 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 Meade UK. 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: