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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

retailtechnology.co.uk

Retail technology Magazine

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

500 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

274 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Retailtechnology.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 500 ms and then it took 3.6 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

retailtechnology.co.uk performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.1

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.retailtechnology.co.uk

500 ms

style.css

244 ms

style_retailtechnology.css

164 ms

jquery.min.js

489 ms

easySlider1.7.js

185 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Retailtechnology.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Retailtechnology.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 249.8 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Retailtechnology.co.uk main page is 1.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 15.8 kB
  • After minification 14.7 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 11.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 128.0 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Retail Technology images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 95.1 kB

  • Original 132.0 kB
  • After minification 114.9 kB
  • After compression 36.9 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 95.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 19.5 kB
  • After minification 17.3 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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. Retailtechnology.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (16%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Retail Technology. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.retailtechnology.co.uk

www.retailtechnology.co.uk

500 ms

style.css

style.css

244 ms

style_retailtechnology.css

style_retailtechnology.css

164 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

489 ms

easySlider1.7.js

easySlider1.7.js

185 ms

jquery.cycle.all.2.72.js

jquery.cycle.all.2.72.js

441 ms

surfCarousel.js

surfCarousel.js

237 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

325 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

89 ms

bgnd_mcommerce.gif

bgnd_mcommerce.gif

89 ms

728x90-benefits-demo.gif

728x90-benefits-demo.gif

89 ms

icon_newsalerts.jpg

icon_newsalerts.jpg

165 ms

icon_linkedin.jpg

icon_linkedin.jpg

164 ms

icon_rss.jpg

icon_rss.jpg

173 ms

footer.gif

footer.gif

174 ms

logo_retailtechnology.gif

logo_retailtechnology.gif

258 ms

Small-Version_-_IMRG.gif

Small-Version_-_IMRG.gif

259 ms

468x60-delivers-demo.png

468x60-delivers-demo.png

326 ms

divide.png

divide.png

370 ms

300x250-wp-image.png

300x250-wp-image.png

370 ms

300x250-demo.png

300x250-demo.png

371 ms

300x250-wp-button.png

300x250-wp-button.png

420 ms

grad.gif

grad.gif

468 ms

Morrisons_logo.jpg

Morrisons_logo.jpg

567 ms

Supply_generic.jpg

Supply_generic.jpg

911 ms

emu_2.jpg

emu_2.jpg

1070 ms

DIA%20espana-10.jpg

DIA%20espana-10.jpg

995 ms

Green_matrix_generic.jpg

Green_matrix_generic.jpg

1078 ms

S82_0429__1456701290_86.186.214.202.jpg

S82_0429__1456701290_86.186.214.202.jpg

1068 ms

Tablet_gift_generic.jpg

Tablet_gift_generic.jpg

998 ms

Murdochs.jpg

Murdochs.jpg

1484 ms

Graze_boxwithassets.jpg

Graze_boxwithassets.jpg

1339 ms

Mobile%20retailing%20generic.jpg

Mobile%20retailing%20generic.jpg

1512 ms

Wakefern.jpg

Wakefern.jpg

1718 ms

GiantTiger_interior.jpg

GiantTiger_interior.jpg

1756 ms

mus2.jpg

mus2.jpg

1484 ms

Zalando.jpg

Zalando.jpg

2111 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

17 ms

Accessibility Review

retailtechnology.co.uk accessibility score

76

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

retailtechnology.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

retailtechnology.co.uk SEO score

83

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

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

    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 Retailtechnology.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 Retailtechnology.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

retailtechnology.co.uk

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