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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

shieldautocare.com

Shield AutoCare | Manufacturer of Quality Vehicle Accessories

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

263 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

202 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Shield Auto Care content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about shieldautocare.com

We specialise in manufacturing and supplying high quality automotive accessories, from vehicle cover to floor mats, Campervan windows to rubber flooring.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shieldautocare.com page load time and found that the first response time was 263 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shieldautocare.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shieldautocare.com

263 ms

www.shieldautocare.co.uk

2418 ms

autoptimize_d635cb9c14f021b34bdf58ebe53fa260.css

342 ms

dashicons.min.css

541 ms

jquery.min.js

637 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Shieldautocare.com, 92% (12 requests) were made to Shieldautocare.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Shieldautocare.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 244.4 kB (31%)

Content Size

779.3 kB

After Optimization

535.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shieldautocare.com main page is 779.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 285.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 80.3 kB

  • Original 98.7 kB
  • After minification 98.6 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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 80.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 285.5 kB
  • After minification 285.5 kB

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. Shield Auto Care images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 124.1 kB

  • Original 269.7 kB
  • After minification 269.7 kB
  • After compression 145.6 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 124.1 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 40.0 kB

  • Original 125.4 kB
  • After minification 125.4 kB
  • After compression 85.5 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. Shieldautocare.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40.0 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (50%)

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shield Auto Care. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shieldautocare.com

shieldautocare.com

263 ms

www.shieldautocare.co.uk

www.shieldautocare.co.uk

2418 ms

autoptimize_d635cb9c14f021b34bdf58ebe53fa260.css

autoptimize_d635cb9c14f021b34bdf58ebe53fa260.css

342 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

541 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

637 ms

lazysizes.min.js

lazysizes.min.js

276 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

313 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

330 ms

autoptimize_cc74a4c907eecc834b695a4b9d9c6029.js

autoptimize_cc74a4c907eecc834b695a4b9d9c6029.js

517 ms

flatsome.js

flatsome.js

142 ms

fl-icons.ttf

fl-icons.ttf

118 ms

Shield-Logo.png

Shield-Logo.png

133 ms

PVC-cotton-4.png

PVC-cotton-4.png

630 ms

Accessibility Review

shieldautocare.com accessibility score

88

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

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Best Practices

shieldautocare.com 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

SEO Factors

shieldautocare.com SEO score

92

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

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 Shieldautocare.com 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 Shieldautocare.com 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

shieldautocare.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Shield Auto Care. 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: