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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

sponge.co.uk

Sponge Cakes | Cake Delivery UK | Birthday Cakes | Vegan Cakes | Gluten Free Cakes

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

309 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Sponge content for Nigeria. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sponge.co.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sponge.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sponge.co.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,990 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sponge.co.uk

31 ms

sponge.co.uk

285 ms

www.sponge.co.uk

490 ms

gtm.js

76 ms

app-42893b27.css

357 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Sponge.co.uk, 35% (9 requests) were made to Cdn.sponge.co.uk and 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (652 ms) belongs to the original domain Sponge.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 39.3 kB (56%)

Content Size

70.6 kB

After Optimization

31.2 kB

  • HTML
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sponge.co.uk main page is 70.6 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 49.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 49.6 kB
  • After minification 38.1 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.5 kB, which is 23% 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 39.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 87 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. Sponge.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sponge. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

sponge.co.uk

sponge.co.uk

31 ms

sponge.co.uk

sponge.co.uk

285 ms

www.sponge.co.uk

www.sponge.co.uk

490 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

76 ms

app-42893b27.css

app-42893b27.css

357 ms

app-651625ca.css

app-651625ca.css

515 ms

content_page-d8b8003b.css

content_page-d8b8003b.css

317 ms

3pm.svg

3pm.svg

191 ms

packaging.svg

packaging.svg

275 ms

calendar.svg

calendar.svg

241 ms

next-day-delivery.svg

next-day-delivery.svg

179 ms

uk-wide-delivery.svg

uk-wide-delivery.svg

196 ms

easy-repeat-ordering.svg

easy-repeat-ordering.svg

178 ms

gluten-free-vegan.svg

gluten-free-vegan.svg

254 ms

referral-scheme.svg

referral-scheme.svg

189 ms

large-variety.svg

large-variety.svg

312 ms

vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015

vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015

89 ms

social-fb.svg

social-fb.svg

360 ms

social-tw.svg

social-tw.svg

400 ms

social-ig.svg

social-ig.svg

379 ms

social-li.svg

social-li.svg

582 ms

payment-applepay_v2.svg

payment-applepay_v2.svg

540 ms

payment-gpay.svg

payment-gpay.svg

621 ms

payment-visa.svg

payment-visa.svg

631 ms

payment-mastercard.svg

payment-mastercard.svg

652 ms

block-desktop-8f22e9ce.svg

block-desktop-8f22e9ce.svg

326 ms

Accessibility Review

sponge.co.uk accessibility score

94

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.

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

sponge.co.uk 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sponge.co.uk 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 Sponge.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 Sponge.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

sponge.co.uk

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