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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

shop.marchesironmongery.co.uk

Marches Ironmongery - ironmongery and tools for carpenters, joiners, builders and DIY enthusiasts - Marches Architectural Ironmongery

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

272 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

211 ms

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About Website

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Marches Architectural Hardware is a wholesaler of fine architectural ironmongery and tools. We stock an enormous range of essential products specifically for carpenters, joiners, builders and DIY enth...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shop.marchesironmongery.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 272 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shop.marchesironmongery.co.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value990 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shop.marchesironmongery.co.uk

272 ms

www.marchesironmongery.co.uk

631 ms

2ca31c68377c3f95034c201e91077de3.css

382 ms

76de7bbf40a7c6f74fcf747f2e2f14f2.js

706 ms

logo.gif

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Shop.marchesironmongery.co.uk, 66% (25 requests) were made to Static.marchesironmongery.co.uk and 16% (6 requests) were made to Marchesironmongery.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (933 ms) relates to the external source Static.marchesironmongery.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 614.5 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

538.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shop.marchesironmongery.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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 507.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 93.8 kB

  • Original 110.5 kB
  • After minification 108.1 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. 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 93.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 401.0 kB
  • After minification 398.4 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. Shop Marches Ironmongery images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 405.0 kB

  • Original 507.5 kB
  • After minification 358.0 kB
  • After compression 102.5 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 405.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 113.0 kB

  • Original 133.5 kB
  • After minification 103.1 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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. Shop.marchesironmongery.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 113.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (29%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shop Marches Ironmongery. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shop.marchesironmongery.co.uk

shop.marchesironmongery.co.uk

272 ms

www.marchesironmongery.co.uk

www.marchesironmongery.co.uk

631 ms

2ca31c68377c3f95034c201e91077de3.css

2ca31c68377c3f95034c201e91077de3.css

382 ms

76de7bbf40a7c6f74fcf747f2e2f14f2.js

76de7bbf40a7c6f74fcf747f2e2f14f2.js

706 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

111 ms

comodo_secure_100x85_transp.png

comodo_secure_100x85_transp.png

218 ms

body_bg.gif

body_bg.gif

111 ms

ga.js

ga.js

37 ms

bkg_header.gif

bkg_header.gif

110 ms

header_marches_phone.gif

header_marches_phone.gif

210 ms

mini_search_box.gif

mini_search_box.gif

219 ms

btn_mini_search_go.gif

btn_mini_search_go.gif

217 ms

isalive

isalive

187 ms

shop-access-li.gif

shop-access-li.gif

210 ms

bkg_member_nav_a.gif

bkg_member_nav_a.gif

211 ms

bkg_header_free_delivery.gif

bkg_header_free_delivery.gif

218 ms

bkg_header_special_offers.gif

bkg_header_special_offers.gif

405 ms

bkg_header_new_products.gif

bkg_header_new_products.gif

406 ms

bkg_header_returns.gif

bkg_header_returns.gif

406 ms

bkg_nav_li.gif

bkg_nav_li.gif

391 ms

bkg_nav_a.gif

bkg_nav_a.gif

392 ms

bkg_homepage_news_wrapper.png

bkg_homepage_news_wrapper.png

391 ms

bkg_homepage_news_over_more.png

bkg_homepage_news_over_more.png

408 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

83 ms

foto_967_45_off_exitex_thresholds.jpg

foto_967_45_off_exitex_thresholds.jpg

933 ms

foto_737_timber_parting_staff_bead.jpg

foto_737_timber_parting_staff_bead.jpg

933 ms

btn_homepage_promo_trade.jpg

btn_homepage_promo_trade.jpg

479 ms

btn_homepage_promo_heritage.jpg

btn_homepage_promo_heritage.jpg

479 ms

btn_homepage_promo_facebook.jpg

btn_homepage_promo_facebook.jpg

486 ms

btn_homepage_promo_catalogue.jpg

btn_homepage_promo_catalogue.jpg

468 ms

bkg_footer_nav_item.gif

bkg_footer_nav_item.gif

577 ms

btn_quick_contact.png

btn_quick_contact.png

137 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

209 ms

closelabel.gif

closelabel.gif

334 ms

widget_v2.135.js

widget_v2.135.js

24 ms

avatar_simple_visitor.png

avatar_simple_visitor.png

68 ms

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aL63HcygAAVYuCCsAAA==

1 ms

37a2e603a1e7c1c709e1664fc34b5b65.css

37a2e603a1e7c1c709e1664fc34b5b65.css

111 ms

Accessibility Review

shop.marchesironmongery.co.uk accessibility score

92

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

shop.marchesironmongery.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

shop.marchesironmongery.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 Shop.marchesironmongery.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 Shop.marchesironmongery.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

shop.marchesironmongery.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Shop Marches Ironmongery. 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: