Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

southwestwater.co.uk

South West Water

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

339 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

161 ms

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About Website

Visit southwestwater.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date South West Water content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about southwestwater.co.uk

We're the water and wastewater service provider for around 1.8 million customers in Cornwall, Devon, parts of Somerset and Dorset and the Isles of Scilly.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southwestwater.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 339 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southwestwater.co.uk performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,980 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.137

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southwestwater.co.uk

339 ms

index.cfm

1271 ms

268154399.js

436 ms

javascripts.js

337 ms

structure.css

171 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (89 requests) were addressed to the original Southwestwater.co.uk, 7% (9 requests) were made to Waterlivewidget.southwestwater.co.uk and 4% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Southwestwater.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (68%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Southwestwater.co.uk main page is 3.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 70.5 kB

  • Original 84.7 kB
  • After minification 75.2 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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 9.5 kB, which is 11% 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 70.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 707.7 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. Obviously, South West Water needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 63% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 499.2 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 1.2 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 203.0 kB

  • Original 237.1 kB
  • After minification 186.1 kB
  • After compression 34.0 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. Southwestwater.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 203.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 81 (69%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of South West Water. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

southwestwater.co.uk accessibility score

87

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

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

southwestwater.co.uk best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

southwestwater.co.uk SEO score

71

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Southwestwater.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 Southwestwater.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of South West Water. 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: