Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

stcards.co.uk

Plastic Card Services, Plastic Card Manufacturer, RFID Products, RFID Services

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

439 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

200 ms

stcards.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to stcards.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check St Card S best content right away, or after learning these important things about stcards.co.uk

Smart Technology Cards offer all types of plastic card services & rfid services for all types of plastic cards, smart cards, rfid wristbands, & rfid key fobs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stcards.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 439 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stcards.co.uk performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.02

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.primeplasticcards.co.uk

439 ms

main.css

99 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

14 ms

jquery.min.js

253 ms

jquery.dropotron.min.js

169 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Stcards.co.uk, 7% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (515 ms) relates to the external source Primeplasticcards.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 50.1 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Stcards.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 21.1 kB
  • After minification 18.8 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 17.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 29.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 989.8 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. St Card S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 35.8 kB
  • After minification 35.8 kB
  • After compression 33.4 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 12.3 kB
  • After minification 12.3 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. Stcards.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (50%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of St Card S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stcards.co.uk accessibility score

83

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

stcards.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

SEO Factors

stcards.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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stcards.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Stcards.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 St Card S. 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: