Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

pastafoods.com

Pasta Foods - Great British Pasta Products Since 1956

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

196 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

204 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Pasta Foods content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about pastafoods.com

With over 60 years of experience, Pasta Foods is the UK’s only dried pasta manufacturer, supplying a wide range of food sectors.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pastafoods.com page load time and found that the first response time was 196 ms and then it took 2.8 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

pastafoods.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.154

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pastafoods.com

196 ms

www.pastafoods.com

440 ms

6dyrn.css

343 ms

css2

29 ms

style.css

252 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Pastafoods.com, 29% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (596 ms) belongs to the original domain Pastafoods.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 67.6 kB (9%)

Content Size

762.9 kB

After Optimization

695.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Pastafoods.com main page is 762.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 328.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 54.2 kB

  • Original 67.4 kB
  • After minification 63.8 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 54.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 328.2 kB
  • After minification 317.7 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. Pasta Foods images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 231.4 kB
  • After minification 231.4 kB
  • After compression 230.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 136.1 kB
  • After minification 135.8 kB
  • After compression 134.4 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. Pastafoods.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (61%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pasta Foods. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pastafoods.com accessibility score

96

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

pastafoods.com 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

pastafoods.com SEO score

93

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

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 Pastafoods.com 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 Pastafoods.com 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 Pasta Foods. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: