Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

parcelguide.co.uk

ParcelGuide - complete parcel, postage and shipping information

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

313 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

402 ms

parcelguide.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Parcelguide.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 313 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

parcelguide.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,220 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

parcelguide.co.uk

313 ms

parcelguide.co.uk

1859 ms

d4918584fee1ec813799b05e18c17d23.css

202 ms

c0e5c5b1a80e832e203511884e52e7b7.css

303 ms

a8b92b61ed4eab919b58a08e1be3322c.css

307 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Parcelguide.co.uk, 24% (14 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 (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Parcelguide.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 131.5 kB (15%)

Content Size

906.2 kB

After Optimization

774.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Parcelguide.co.uk main page is 906.2 kB. 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. Javascripts take 450.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 93.1 kB

  • Original 113.4 kB
  • After minification 110.0 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 93.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 212.4 kB
  • After minification 205.7 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. Parcel Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 450.8 kB
  • After minification 450.8 kB
  • After compression 436.4 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

-13%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 129.6 kB
  • After minification 129.6 kB
  • After compression 112.3 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. Parcelguide.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.3 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (90%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Parcel Guide. 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 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

parcelguide.co.uk accessibility score

84

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

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

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

Best Practices

parcelguide.co.uk best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

parcelguide.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Parcelguide.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 Parcelguide.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 Parcel Guide. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: