Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

meritgardenproducts.co.uk

Merit Garden Products | Bedfordshire | Suffolk | Garden Buildings

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

meritgardenproducts.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to meritgardenproducts.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Merit Garden Products best content right away, or after learning these important things about meritgardenproducts.co.uk

Merit Garden Products manufactures and supplies a vast selection of garden buildings across the Bedfordshire and Suffolk area. Visit us or enquire online today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Meritgardenproducts.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

meritgardenproducts.co.uk performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value40.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value34,140 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.476

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value66.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

meritgardenproducts.co.uk

1069 ms

js

368 ms

js

504 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

225 ms

style.min.css

577 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Meritgardenproducts.co.uk, 5% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Meritgardenproducts.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 577.3 kB (6%)

Content Size

9.1 MB

After Optimization

8.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Meritgardenproducts.co.uk main page is 9.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 150.8 kB

  • Original 185.0 kB
  • After minification 182.0 kB
  • After compression 34.1 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 150.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 7.9 MB
  • After minification 7.9 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. Merit Garden Products images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 98.9 kB

  • Original 398.0 kB
  • After minification 398.0 kB
  • After compression 299.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 98.9 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 327.6 kB

  • Original 590.1 kB
  • After minification 589.9 kB
  • After compression 262.6 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. Meritgardenproducts.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 327.6 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 93 (81%)

Requests Now

115

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 115 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Merit Garden Products. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 63 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 32 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

meritgardenproducts.co.uk accessibility score

72

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

<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

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>).

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

meritgardenproducts.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

meritgardenproducts.co.uk SEO score

76

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Meritgardenproducts.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 Meritgardenproducts.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 data is detected on the main page of Merit Garden Products. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: