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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ridgeons.co.uk

Building Materials and Supplies from Huws Gray Builders Merchants

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

272 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

289 ms

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About Website

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

Huws Gray Ltd are leading independent builders merchants in North Wales & the North West, stocking building materials & supplies for both domestic & trade use.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ridgeons.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 272 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

ridgeons.co.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60,460 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value85.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ridgeons.co.uk

272 ms

www.ridgeons.co.uk

1364 ms

style.css

240 ms

default.css

164 ms

nivo-slider.3.1.css

164 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Ridgeons.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Ridgeons.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 292.0 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ridgeons.co.uk main page is 1.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 33.3 kB

  • Original 40.1 kB
  • After minification 32.3 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 7.9 kB, which is 20% 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 33.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 107.4 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Ridgeons images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 46.3 kB

  • Original 81.7 kB
  • After minification 77.9 kB
  • After compression 35.3 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 46.3 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 104.9 kB

  • Original 120.8 kB
  • After minification 87.0 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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. Ridgeons.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 104.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (27%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ridgeons. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ridgeons.co.uk

ridgeons.co.uk

272 ms

www.ridgeons.co.uk

www.ridgeons.co.uk

1364 ms

style.css

style.css

240 ms

default.css

default.css

164 ms

nivo-slider.3.1.css

nivo-slider.3.1.css

164 ms

plain.css

plain.css

165 ms

styles.css

styles.css

166 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

30 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

92 ms

browser-selector.js

browser-selector.js

246 ms

homepage.js

homepage.js

246 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.3.1.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.3.1.js

247 ms

global.js

global.js

248 ms

responsive.js

responsive.js

248 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

99 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

584 ms

halfed.png

halfed.png

282 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

569 ms

new-tag.png

new-tag.png

283 ms

nav-bg.png

nav-bg.png

286 ms

services-hero.jpg

services-hero.jpg

301 ms

services-hero1.jpg

services-hero1.jpg

406 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

284 ms

Landscaping-Banner-Q2-2016.gif

Landscaping-Banner-Q2-2016.gif

607 ms

Ridgeons-CASHBACK-Web-Banner-2016.jpg

Ridgeons-CASHBACK-Web-Banner-2016.jpg

1060 ms

Porotherm-banner.jpg

Porotherm-banner.jpg

621 ms

Macmillan.jpg

Macmillan.jpg

730 ms

Smashing-Offers-Homepage-Panel.gif

Smashing-Offers-Homepage-Panel.gif

650 ms

building-materials.jpg

building-materials.jpg

749 ms

timber.jpg

timber.jpg

767 ms

heating.jpg

heating.jpg

701 ms

paint0015.jpg

paint0015.jpg

810 ms

kitchenshome0014.jpg

kitchenshome0014.jpg

860 ms

kitchens-bathrooms.jpg

kitchens-bathrooms.jpg

811 ms

flooring0011.jpg

flooring0011.jpg

918 ms

landscaping.jpg

landscaping.jpg

929 ms

home-panel-shop.jpg

home-panel-shop.jpg

972 ms

pencil.jpg

pencil.jpg

892 ms

gold-end.png

gold-end.png

940 ms

gold-start.png

gold-start.png

974 ms

accreditations.jpg

accreditations.jpg

1002 ms

cd-top-arrow.svg

cd-top-arrow.svg

1010 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

36 ms

www.ridgeons.co.uk

www.ridgeons.co.uk

2083 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

1000 ms

collect

collect

208 ms

Accessibility Review

ridgeons.co.uk accessibility score

64

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

ridgeons.co.uk best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ridgeons.co.uk SEO score

86

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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 Ridgeons.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 Ridgeons.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

ridgeons.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Ridgeons. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: