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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

sheppardsdiy.co.uk

Sheppards DIY | UK's Best Value - Kitchens, Bathrooms, Bedrooms

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

665 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sheppardsdiy.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sheppardsdiy.co.uk performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,400 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sheppardsdiy.co.uk

35 ms

sheppardsdiy.co.uk

275 ms

www.sheppardsdiy.co.uk

445 ms

screen.1226.css

64 ms

responsive-commerce.js

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Sheppardsdiy.co.uk, 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Sheppardsdiy.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 478.4 kB (13%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sheppardsdiy.co.uk main page is 3.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 361.6 kB

  • Original 386.1 kB
  • After minification 262.8 kB
  • After compression 24.5 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 123.2 kB, which is 32% 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 361.6 kB or 94% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 113.4 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Sheppards DIY images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 85 B

  • Original 13.9 kB
  • After minification 13.9 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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

-17%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 19.2 kB
  • After minification 19.2 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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. Sheppardsdiy.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.3 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (12%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sheppards DIY. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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sheppardsdiy.co.uk

35 ms

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275 ms

www.sheppardsdiy.co.uk

www.sheppardsdiy.co.uk

445 ms

screen.1226.css

screen.1226.css

64 ms

responsive-commerce.js

responsive-commerce.js

91 ms

mainAnimator.js

mainAnimator.js

78 ms

Animator.Animator.js

Animator.Animator.js

286 ms

Animator.Base.js

Animator.Base.js

139 ms

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140 ms

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Accessibility Review

sheppardsdiy.co.uk accessibility score

90

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sheppardsdiy.co.uk 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

sheppardsdiy.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sheppardsdiy.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 Sheppardsdiy.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

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