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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

sofatime.co.uk

Sofatime | Northern Ireland's Sofa Experts

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

3.1 sec

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About Website

Visit sofatime.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Sofatime content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sofatime.co.uk

Sofatime offers stylish leather and fabric sofas that make your home truly comfortable. Choose from corner sofas, recliners, or armchairs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sofatime.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sofatime.co.uk performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value48.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,070 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.259

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sofatime.co.uk

165 ms

sofatime.co.uk

311 ms

www.sofatime.co.uk

1382 ms

base.css

76 ms

reset.css

151 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Sofatime.co.uk, 37% (26 requests) were made to Images.ctfassets.net and 4% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Sofatime.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (4%)

Content Size

27.4 MB

After Optimization

26.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sofatime.co.uk main page is 27.4 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. 75% 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 27.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 66.6 kB

  • Original 78.5 kB
  • After minification 61.1 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 17.4 kB, which is 22% 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 66.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 27.2 MB
  • After minification 26.1 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. Sofatime images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 482 B

  • Original 49.0 kB
  • After minification 49.0 kB
  • After compression 48.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 39.3 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. Sofatime.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (26%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

49

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sofatime. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sofatime.co.uk

sofatime.co.uk

165 ms

sofatime.co.uk

sofatime.co.uk

311 ms

www.sofatime.co.uk

www.sofatime.co.uk

1382 ms

base.css

base.css

76 ms

reset.css

reset.css

151 ms

swiper.css

swiper.css

226 ms

mobile.css

mobile.css

306 ms

mobile-wide.css

mobile-wide.css

227 ms

tablet.css

tablet.css

228 ms

desktop.css

desktop.css

234 ms

desktop-wide.css

desktop-wide.css

231 ms

js

js

91 ms

js

js

140 ms

mlt_ecomm.js

mlt_ecomm.js

332 ms

lbk7jku.css

lbk7jku.css

111 ms

klaviyo.js

klaviyo.js

38 ms

new_swiper.js

new_swiper.js

388 ms

countdown.js

countdown.js

299 ms

p.css

p.css

25 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

81 ms

Homepage_Letterbox__without_lines_.png

Homepage_Letterbox__without_lines_.png

189 ms

new_logo.webp

new_logo.webp

188 ms

feefo.webp

feefo.webp

140 ms

new_2_seater.webp

new_2_seater.webp

188 ms

3_seaters.webp

3_seaters.webp

188 ms

corner_sofas.webp

corner_sofas.webp

187 ms

sofatime.png

sofatime.png

159 ms

green_arrow.svg

green_arrow.svg

185 ms

Homepage_Square__without_lines_.png

Homepage_Square__without_lines_.png

194 ms

Newness_Homepage-01.png

Newness_Homepage-01.png

192 ms

New_arrivals_vertical.png

New_arrivals_vertical.png

192 ms

make-it-italian-banner-3.png

make-it-italian-banner-3.png

193 ms

italian-vertical-2_copy.png

italian-vertical-2_copy.png

191 ms

zest.png

zest.png

293 ms

Suite_Savings_Left.png

Suite_Savings_Left.png

199 ms

Banner_right.png

Banner_right.png

197 ms

ifc_left.png

ifc_left.png

196 ms

IFC_Web_Banner-right_NI.png

IFC_Web_Banner-right_NI.png

194 ms

murphy-2.webp

murphy-2.webp

429 ms

3_seater-3.png

3_seater-3.png

220 ms

Homepage_Bottom_Grid_Letterbox.png

Homepage_Bottom_Grid_Letterbox.png

203 ms

sprite.svg

sprite.svg

225 ms

d

d

62 ms

d

d

142 ms

colours.webp

colours.webp

211 ms

roma.webp

roma.webp

283 ms

dakota.webp

dakota.webp

282 ms

piper.webp

piper.webp

282 ms

plaza.webp

plaza.webp

212 ms

new-summer-sale.webp

new-summer-sale.webp

356 ms

sizes.webp

sizes.webp

283 ms

santorini.webp

santorini.webp

283 ms

zest.webp

zest.webp

432 ms

lexi.webp

lexi.webp

358 ms

hastings.webp

hastings.webp

432 ms

villa.webp

villa.webp

357 ms

monroe.webp

monroe.webp

359 ms

Homepage_Background_Image.jpg

Homepage_Background_Image.jpg

220 ms

80785_ROOM_SET.jpg

80785_ROOM_SET.jpg

214 ms

make-it-italian-revised.webp

make-it-italian-revised.webp

180 ms

fabric.webp

fabric.webp

279 ms

leather.webp

leather.webp

196 ms

corner.webp

corner.webp

200 ms

recliner.webp

recliner.webp

318 ms

sofatime_-_may_2024_-_full_res-39.jpg

sofatime_-_may_2024_-_full_res-39.jpg

224 ms

footstools.png

footstools.png

227 ms

sofatime_-_may_2024_-_full_res-60.jpg

sofatime_-_may_2024_-_full_res-60.jpg

264 ms

murphy-object-2.webp

murphy-object-2.webp

231 ms

sofatime_-_day_1_-_promo_shots-38.jpg

sofatime_-_day_1_-_promo_shots-38.jpg

250 ms

print.css

print.css

76 ms

g55iztev

g55iztev

42 ms

Accessibility Review

sofatime.co.uk accessibility score

78

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

sofatime.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sofatime.co.uk SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Sofatime.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 Sofatime.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

sofatime.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sofatime. 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: