Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

parkertools.co.uk

Fixings & Fasteners | Tools, Engineering & Building Supplies | ParkerTools

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

253 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

274 ms

parkertools.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to parkertools.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Parker Tools best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about parkertools.co.uk

ParkerTools supply high quality fixings and fasteners, hand rail components, abrasives, power tools and other Trade and DIY supplies. Great service, low prices and next day delivery across the UK.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Parkertools.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 253 ms and then it took 4.6 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

parkertools.co.uk performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

parkertools.co.uk

253 ms

www.parkertools.co.uk

393 ms

Basic.css

162 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.17.custom.css

244 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.24.custom.css

247 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (96 requests) were addressed to the original Parkertools.co.uk, 2% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Parkertools.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 832.7 kB (31%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Parkertools.co.uk main page is 2.7 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. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 101.4 kB

  • Original 116.0 kB
  • After minification 88.2 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 27.7 kB, which is 24% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 101.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 153.3 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Parker Tools images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 272.7 kB

  • Original 343.0 kB
  • After minification 245.8 kB
  • After compression 70.3 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 272.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 305.3 kB

  • Original 348.6 kB
  • After minification 245.5 kB
  • After compression 43.4 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. Parkertools.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 305.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (49%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Parker Tools. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

parkertools.co.uk accessibility score

97

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.

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

parkertools.co.uk best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

parkertools.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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Parkertools.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 Parkertools.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Parker Tools. 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: