Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

sharpsmart.co.uk

Sharpsmart | Clinical, Sharps and Hazardous Waste Disposal

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

75 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

553 ms

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About Website

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Sharpsmart, a full service provider of clinical, sharps and hazardous waste disposal and clinical product solutions to the UK healthcare industry. National services across the United Kingdom.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sharpsmart.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 75 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sharpsmart.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,580 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sharpsmart.co.uk

75 ms

sharpsmart.co.uk

73 ms

www.sharpsmart.co.uk

153 ms

gtm.js

247 ms

css

193 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (77 requests) were addressed to the original Sharpsmart.co.uk, 5% (5 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 5% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (545 ms) belongs to the original domain Sharpsmart.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 576.0 kB (20%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Sharpsmart.co.uk main page is 3.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 148.2 kB

  • Original 177.0 kB
  • After minification 163.8 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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. 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 148.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 92.6 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Sharpsmart images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 334.3 kB

  • Original 660.0 kB
  • After minification 660.0 kB
  • After compression 325.7 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 334.3 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 932 B

  • Original 209.7 kB
  • After minification 209.7 kB
  • After compression 208.7 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. Sharpsmart.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (43%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sharpsmart. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sharpsmart.co.uk accessibility score

68

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

ARIA toggle fields do not have accessible names

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sharpsmart.co.uk best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sharpsmart.co.uk SEO score

75

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Sharpsmart.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 Sharpsmart.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

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