Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

patrolbase.co.uk

Airsoft Guns, BBs, Tactical Equipment & Gear | Patrol Base UK

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

233 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

745 ms

patrolbase.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit patrolbase.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Patrol Base content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about patrolbase.co.uk

Buy Airsoft guns, BBs, tactical equipment and more from Patrol Base, the UK’s biggest Airsoft retailer. Shop now for the best Airsoft deals and new releases.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Patrolbase.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 233 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

patrolbase.co.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,520 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

patrolbase.co.uk

233 ms

patrolbase.co.uk

317 ms

www.patrolbase.co.uk

773 ms

theme.bundle.css

633 ms

lightbox.css

307 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Patrolbase.co.uk, 25% (14 requests) were made to Images.patrolbase.co.uk and 20% (11 requests) were made to Uploads.patrolbase.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (773 ms) belongs to the original domain Patrolbase.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 257.0 kB (38%)

Content Size

672.0 kB

After Optimization

415.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Patrolbase.co.uk main page is 672.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 280.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 246.9 kB

  • Original 280.3 kB
  • After minification 265.3 kB
  • After compression 33.4 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 246.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 212.3 kB
  • After minification 212.3 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. Patrol Base images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 156.3 kB
  • After minification 156.3 kB
  • After compression 146.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 542 B

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 23.1 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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. Patrolbase.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (35%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Patrol Base. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

patrolbase.co.uk accessibility score

81

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

ARIA toggle fields do not have accessible names

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

patrolbase.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

patrolbase.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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 Patrolbase.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 Patrolbase.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 Patrol Base. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: