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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

slate.uk.com

Roof Slates | Roofing Slate Suppliers of Natural Slate | Slate

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

251 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

356 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Slate content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about slate.uk.com

UK Slate is dedicated to being one of the top natural slate suppliers, importing & exporting quality roof slates, floor slates & more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Slate.uk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 251 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

slate.uk.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.866

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.0 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

slate.uk.com

251 ms

www.ukslate.com

429 ms

style.min.css

168 ms

wc-blocks-vendors-style.css

248 ms

wc-blocks-style.css

335 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Slate.uk.com, 70% (57 requests) were made to Ukslate.com and 16% (13 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Ukslate.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 118.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Slate.uk.com main page is 1.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 94.5 kB

  • Original 121.8 kB
  • After minification 118.5 kB
  • After compression 27.3 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 94.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Slate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 23.7 kB

  • Original 172.5 kB
  • After minification 172.5 kB
  • After compression 148.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 23.7 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (85%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Slate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

slate.uk.com

slate.uk.com

251 ms

www.ukslate.com

www.ukslate.com

429 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

168 ms

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wc-blocks-vendors-style.css

248 ms

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wc-blocks-style.css

335 ms

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247 ms

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cookie-law-info-gdpr.css

249 ms

aos.css

aos.css

249 ms

oxygen.css

oxygen.css

251 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

woocommerce-layout.css

329 ms

woocommerce.css

woocommerce.css

330 ms

photoswipe.min.css

photoswipe.min.css

333 ms

default-skin.min.css

default-skin.min.css

333 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

343 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

411 ms

css

css

28 ms

cookie-law-info-public.js

cookie-law-info-public.js

413 ms

aos.js

aos.js

413 ms

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415 ms

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417 ms

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420 ms

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506 ms

universal.css

universal.css

508 ms

unslider.css

unslider.css

430 ms

cookie-law-info-table.css

cookie-law-info-table.css

430 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

jquery.blockUI.min.js

459 ms

add-to-cart.min.js

add-to-cart.min.js

459 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

546 ms

woocommerce.min.js

woocommerce.min.js

545 ms

cart-fragments.min.js

cart-fragments.min.js

545 ms

gtm4wp-form-move-tracker.js

gtm4wp-form-move-tracker.js

546 ms

jquery.zoom.min.js

jquery.zoom.min.js

546 ms

jquery.flexslider.min.js

jquery.flexslider.min.js

559 ms

photoswipe.min.js

photoswipe.min.js

602 ms

photoswipe-ui-default.min.js

photoswipe-ui-default.min.js

602 ms

single-product.min.js

single-product.min.js

602 ms

button.js

button.js

668 ms

unslider-min.js

unslider-min.js

601 ms

jquery.event.move.js

jquery.event.move.js

630 ms

jquery.event.swipe.js

jquery.event.swipe.js

585 ms

lottie-player.min.js

lottie-player.min.js

644 ms

lottie-interactivity.js

lottie-interactivity.js

505 ms

intersectionobserver.js

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506 ms

lottie-init.js

lottie-init.js

545 ms

flickity.pkgd.min.js

flickity.pkgd.min.js

587 ms

inert.js

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507 ms

offcanvas-init.js

offcanvas-init.js

503 ms

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505 ms

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537 ms

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gtm.js

76 ms

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350 ms

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349 ms

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715 ms

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84 ms

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164 ms

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twk-arr-find-polyfill.js

58 ms

twk-object-values-polyfill.js

twk-object-values-polyfill.js

61 ms

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59 ms

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60 ms

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64 ms

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twk-promise-polyfill.js

59 ms

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twk-main.js

68 ms

twk-vendor.js

twk-vendor.js

71 ms

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twk-chunk-vendors.js

77 ms

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76 ms

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twk-runtime.js

74 ms

twk-app.js

twk-app.js

155 ms

Accessibility Review

slate.uk.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

slate.uk.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

slate.uk.com 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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Slate.uk.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 Slate.uk.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

slate.uk.com

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