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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

shadescolourcentre.co.uk

Shades Colour Centre - The Home Of Paint and Wallpaper

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

148 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

170 ms

shadescolourcentre.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to shadescolourcentre.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Shades Colour Centre best content right away, or after learning these important things about shadescolourcentre.co.uk

Shades is a family run business that has been established for over 30 years. We offer a huge range of decorating products including all major brands and deal with many local schools, colleges and pain...

Visit shadescolourcentre.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Shadescolourcentre.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 148 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shadescolourcentre.co.uk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.35

31/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shadescolourcentre.co.uk

148 ms

shadescolourcentre.co.uk

79 ms

www.shadescolourcentre.co.uk

512 ms

theme-bundle.polyfills.js

364 ms

theme-bundle.head_async.js

128 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Shadescolourcentre.co.uk, 41% (12 requests) were made to Cdn11.bigcommerce.com and 17% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (512 ms) belongs to the original domain Shadescolourcentre.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 143.3 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Shadescolourcentre.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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 143.1 kB

  • Original 161.3 kB
  • After minification 136.4 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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 24.9 kB, which is 15% 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 143.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.1 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. Shades Colour Centre images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 182 B

  • Original 203.3 kB
  • After minification 203.3 kB
  • After compression 203.1 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 10 (48%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shades Colour Centre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shadescolourcentre.co.uk

shadescolourcentre.co.uk

148 ms

shadescolourcentre.co.uk

shadescolourcentre.co.uk

79 ms

www.shadescolourcentre.co.uk

www.shadescolourcentre.co.uk

512 ms

theme-bundle.polyfills.js

theme-bundle.polyfills.js

364 ms

theme-bundle.head_async.js

theme-bundle.head_async.js

128 ms

css

css

73 ms

theme-bundle.font.js

theme-bundle.font.js

56 ms

theme-7b731f20-e90e-013c-9432-7aebb6309e78.css

theme-7b731f20-e90e-013c-9432-7aebb6309e78.css

73 ms

loader.js

loader.js

127 ms

theme-bundle.main.js

theme-bundle.main.js

67 ms

csrf-protection-header-5eeddd5de78d98d146ef4fd71b2aedce4161903e.js

csrf-protection-header-5eeddd5de78d98d146ef4fd71b2aedce4161903e.js

51 ms

visitor_stencil.js

visitor_stencil.js

124 ms

widget.js

widget.js

68 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

110 ms

phoneicon.png

phoneicon.png

83 ms

truck.png

truck.png

83 ms

shades_company_logo_1711994584__02655.original.jpg

shades_company_logo_1711994584__02655.original.jpg

83 ms

sadolin-promotion-picture.png

sadolin-promotion-picture.png

99 ms

loading.svg

loading.svg

98 ms

index.php

index.php

184 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxMKTU1Kg.woff

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxMKTU1Kg.woff

73 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc-AMP6lQ.woff

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc-AMP6lQ.woff

88 ms

7cHqv4kjgoGqM7E3t-4s51oqtz0rdg.woff

7cHqv4kjgoGqM7E3t-4s51oqtz0rdg.woff

62 ms

ieVo2ZhZI2eCN5jzbjEETS9weq8-_d6T_POl0fRJeyVspcBO5XpjLdSL57k.woff

ieVo2ZhZI2eCN5jzbjEETS9weq8-_d6T_POl0fRJeyVspcBO5XpjLdSL57k.woff

84 ms

ieVo2ZhZI2eCN5jzbjEETS9weq8-_d6T_POl0fRJeyWyosBO5XpjLdSL57k.woff

ieVo2ZhZI2eCN5jzbjEETS9weq8-_d6T_POl0fRJeyWyosBO5XpjLdSL57k.woff

61 ms

ecommerce.js

ecommerce.js

25 ms

collect

collect

42 ms

js

js

81 ms

nobot

nobot

48 ms

Accessibility Review

shadescolourcentre.co.uk accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

shadescolourcentre.co.uk best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

shadescolourcentre.co.uk 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 Shadescolourcentre.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 Shadescolourcentre.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

shadescolourcentre.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Shades Colour Centre. 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: