Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

screwfi.com

Screwfix | The UK's Leading Retailer of Trade Tools & Hardware | Screwfix

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Screwfi.com page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 4.6 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

screwfi.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,220 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.173

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.screwfix.com

12 ms

www.screwfix.com

691 ms

ruxitagentjs_A7NVfhjqrux_10291240606133530.js

369 ms

21869940962

120 ms

utag.js

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Screwfi.com, 44% (38 requests) were made to Media.screwfix.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Optimizely.screwfix.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Media.screwfix.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 462.6 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

875.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Screwfi.com main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 723.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 447.6 kB

  • Original 594.6 kB
  • After minification 594.6 kB
  • After compression 147.0 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 447.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 723.6 kB
  • After minification 708.5 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. Screwfi images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4 B

  • Original 19.6 kB
  • After minification 19.6 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (47%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Screwfi. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

screwfi.com accessibility score

89

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.

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

screwfi.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

screwfi.com SEO score

93

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

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 Screwfi.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 Screwfi.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 description is not detected on the main page of Screwfi. 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: