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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

skill-builder.uk

Skill Builder - Product Reviews, Guides & Advice For Builders And DIY

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

228 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

420 ms

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About Website

Welcome to skill-builder.uk homepage info - get ready to check Skill Builder best content right away, or after learning these important things about skill-builder.uk

Skill Builder brings you product reviews, news, guides and advice. Power tools, building products, help for professional trades, self-emloyed & DIYers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skill-builder.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 228 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skill-builder.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,410 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.054

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skill-builder.uk

228 ms

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108 ms

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103 ms

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122 ms

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110 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Skill-builder.uk, 60% (75 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 10% (13 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (655 ms) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 275.6 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Skill-builder.uk main page is 2.2 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 152.0 kB

  • Original 184.4 kB
  • After minification 174.4 kB
  • After compression 32.4 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 152.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 525 B

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Skill Builder images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 122.7 kB

  • Original 369.7 kB
  • After minification 369.7 kB
  • After compression 247.0 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 122.7 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 380 B

  • Original 40.9 kB
  • After minification 40.9 kB
  • After compression 40.6 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. Skill-builder.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (25%)

Requests Now

120

After Optimization

90

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 120 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skill Builder. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

skill-builder.uk accessibility score

86

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

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.

Best Practices

skill-builder.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

skill-builder.uk SEO score

99

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 Skill-builder.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 Skill-builder.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

skill-builder.uk

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