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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

raygrahams.com

Building Supplies & Building Materials, Builders Merchants UK & Northern Ireland

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

188 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

626 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Raygrahams.com page load time and found that the first response time was 188 ms and then it took 4.3 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

raygrahams.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,130 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

raygrahams.com

188 ms

www.raygrahams.com

1829 ms

gtm.js

64 ms

modernizr.custom.js

295 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

415 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Raygrahams.com, 36% (34 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Raygrahams.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 421.6 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Raygrahams.com main page is 2.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 376.9 kB

  • Original 422.3 kB
  • After minification 341.1 kB
  • After compression 45.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 81.2 kB, which is 19% 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 376.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Raygrahams images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 262.9 kB
  • After minification 262.9 kB
  • After compression 227.6 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 35.4 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 49 B

  • Original 28.3 kB
  • After minification 28.3 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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. Raygrahams.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (40%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

49

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Raygrahams. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

raygrahams.com

raygrahams.com

188 ms

www.raygrahams.com

www.raygrahams.com

1829 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

64 ms

modernizr.custom.js

modernizr.custom.js

295 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

415 ms

plugins.min.js

plugins.min.js

636 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

471 ms

build.min.css

build.min.css

563 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

468 ms

WebResource.axd

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599 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

682 ms

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681 ms

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570 ms

js

js

42 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

137 ms

js

js

210 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

247 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

collect

collect

18 ms

js

js

46 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

77 ms

m=bootstrap

m=bootstrap

47 ms

api.js

api.js

29 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

6 ms

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370 ms

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419 ms

PaymentOptionsBanner.png

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366 ms

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371 ms

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504 ms

HassleFreeReturnsBanner.png

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671 ms

ReviewsBanner.png

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673 ms

FastDeliveryBanner.png

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670 ms

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671 ms

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670 ms

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801 ms

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774 ms

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810 ms

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339 ms

US.png

US.png

341 ms

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340 ms

CustomerServiceBanner.png

CustomerServiceBanner.png

337 ms

FreeDeliveryBanner.png

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340 ms

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339 ms

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362 ms

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361 ms

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361 ms

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357 ms

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359 ms

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356 ms

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494 ms

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493 ms

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495 ms

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491 ms

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863 ms

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818 ms

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353 ms

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504 ms

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417 ms

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478 ms

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149 ms

carousel-btn--prev.svg

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328 ms

carousel-btn--next.svg

carousel-btn--next.svg

327 ms

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256 ms

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Accessibility Review

raygrahams.com accessibility score

79

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

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

raygrahams.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

raygrahams.com SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Raygrahams.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Raygrahams.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

raygrahams.com

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