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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

shandhigson.co.uk

Tapes, Adhesives and Packaging Materials - Shand Higson & Co Ltd

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

316 ms

Resources Loaded

8 sec

Page Rendered

218 ms

shandhigson.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Shand Higson content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about shandhigson.co.uk

Adhesive tape and packaging materials from Shand Higson UK - Supplying quality Industrial Double Sided Tape online. Brands include 3M, Tesa, Scapa, Advance and Sekisui.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shandhigson.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 316 ms and then it took 8.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shandhigson.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value970 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shandhigson.co.uk

316 ms

www.shandhigson.co.uk

282 ms

www.shandhigson.co.uk

2318 ms

css

54 ms

v_794_e3b86770d32f58eb787f30500c7f82bf_all.css

335 ms

Our browser made a total of 225 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (213 requests) were addressed to the original Shandhigson.co.uk, 1% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Shandhigson.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 688.3 kB (14%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shandhigson.co.uk main page is 5.0 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 106.8 kB

  • Original 134.4 kB
  • After minification 134.4 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 106.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 54.3 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Shand Higson images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 279.6 kB

  • Original 630.5 kB
  • After minification 628.7 kB
  • After compression 350.9 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 279.6 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 247.6 kB

  • Original 296.8 kB
  • After minification 284.3 kB
  • After compression 49.1 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. Shandhigson.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 247.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (4%)

Requests Now

217

After Optimization

209

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 217 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shand Higson. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shandhigson.co.uk

shandhigson.co.uk

316 ms

www.shandhigson.co.uk

www.shandhigson.co.uk

282 ms

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2318 ms

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Accessibility Review

shandhigson.co.uk accessibility score

71

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

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>).

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

shandhigson.co.uk best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

SEO Factors

shandhigson.co.uk SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Shandhigson.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 Shandhigson.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

shandhigson.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Shand Higson. 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: