Access screwfixdirect.co.uk. Screwfix | The UK's Leading Retailer of Trade Tools & Hardware

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,730 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.173

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

www.screwfix.com

9 ms

www.screwfix.com

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Screwfixdirect.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (17 ms) relates to the external source Screwfix.com.

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Screwfixdirect.co.uk main page is 1.9 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 354 B

Original 923 B
After minification 923 B
After compression 569 B

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 354 B or 38% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 31.7 kB

Original 1.7 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. Screwfix Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

Original 137.2 kB
After minification 137.1 kB
After compression 131.8 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 802 B

Original 78.8 kB
After minification 78.8 kB
After compression 78.0 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. Screwfixdirect.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Now

After Optimization

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Issues

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

Search Engine Optimization Advices

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

N/A
Encoding

ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Screwfixdirect.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Screwfixdirect.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

screwfixdirect.co.uk

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