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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk

Painting and Decorating News | UK News for Professionals : Painting and Decorating News

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

270 ms

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

891 ms

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About Website

Visit paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Painting And Decorating News content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk

Welcome to Painting and Decorating News, the painting and decorating industry’s number one online news service for professional painters and decorators.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 270 ms and then it took 8.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk

270 ms

www.paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk

2727 ms

css2

59 ms

all.css

63 ms

slick.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk, 8% (8 requests) were made to Unpkg.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 985.7 kB (16%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

5.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk main page is 6.2 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 5.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 58.9 kB

  • Original 71.6 kB
  • After minification 65.9 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 58.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 403.6 kB

  • Original 5.4 MB
  • After minification 5.0 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. Painting And Decorating News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 168.4 kB

  • Original 331.1 kB
  • After minification 331.0 kB
  • After compression 162.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 168.4 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 354.9 kB

  • Original 423.3 kB
  • After minification 396.6 kB
  • After compression 68.4 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. Paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 354.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (48%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Painting And Decorating News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk

paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk

270 ms

www.paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk

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2727 ms

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59 ms

all.css

all.css

63 ms

slick.css

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45 ms

animate.min.css

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55 ms

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45 ms

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47 ms

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49 ms

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338 ms

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532 ms

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345 ms

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341 ms

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349 ms

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776 ms

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451 ms

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456 ms

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472 ms

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Accessibility Review

paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk accessibility score

66

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

paintinganddecoratingnews.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk SEO score

78

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 Paintinganddecoratingnews.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 Paintinganddecoratingnews.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

paintinganddecoratingnews.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Painting And Decorating News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: