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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

switchbackcycles.co.uk

Switchback Cycles | Online Bike Shop for Cycling Enthusiasts

Page Load Speed

8.9 sec in total

First Response

289 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

3.4 sec

switchbackcycles.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to switchbackcycles.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Switchback Cycles best content right away, or after learning these important things about switchbackcycles.co.uk

Online cycling shop with a wide range of bikes – road, mountain, hybrid, gravel, electric, folding – plus clothing, parts, tools, accessories & workshops

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Key Findings

We analyzed Switchbackcycles.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 289 ms and then it took 8.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

switchbackcycles.co.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,350 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

switchbackcycles.co.uk

289 ms

www.switchbackcycles.co.uk

630 ms

citr-home.js

1391 ms

WebResource.axd

339 ms

ScriptResource.axd

415 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Switchbackcycles.co.uk, 18% (10 requests) were made to D3nn82uaxijpm6.cloudfront.net and 5% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.salesfire.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Switchbackcycles.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 395.4 kB (16%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Switchbackcycles.co.uk main page is 2.5 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 344.3 kB

  • Original 414.3 kB
  • After minification 397.5 kB
  • After compression 70.0 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 344.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 48.8 kB

  • Original 1.5 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. Switchback Cycles images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 590.3 kB
  • After minification 590.3 kB
  • After compression 588.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 47 B

  • Original 65.4 kB
  • After minification 65.4 kB
  • After compression 65.4 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. Switchbackcycles.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (36%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Switchback Cycles. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

switchbackcycles.co.uk

switchbackcycles.co.uk

289 ms

www.switchbackcycles.co.uk

www.switchbackcycles.co.uk

630 ms

citr-home.js

citr-home.js

1391 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

339 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

415 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

341 ms

js

js

350 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

436 ms

bat.js

bat.js

570 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

607 ms

sad.gif

sad.gif

339 ms

cool.gif

cool.gif

339 ms

www.switchbackcycles.co.uk

www.switchbackcycles.co.uk

415 ms

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cbc399f45c93981b7c3436a48e98e8ce3c3f5eb1

665 ms

logo.png

logo.png

332 ms

IMG_7090.jpg

IMG_7090.jpg

1523 ms

BMX.jpg

BMX.jpg

1725 ms

Elvedes-2.png

Elvedes-2.png

1432 ms

Mavic%201.jpg

Mavic%201.jpg

2671 ms

G20_FS_trail.png

G20_FS_trail.png

1728 ms

Bosch-eBike-Service-Logo-2.jpeg

Bosch-eBike-Service-Logo-2.jpeg

1538 ms

andrew-seaman-ZKB9Bo4zCqQ-unsplash_thumb_217E821C.jpeg

andrew-seaman-ZKB9Bo4zCqQ-unsplash_thumb_217E821C.jpeg

1859 ms

Dawes%20Banner.png

Dawes%20Banner.png

1634 ms

Muc%20Off%20Final%20.png

Muc%20Off%20Final%20.png

1680 ms

Kali.png

Kali.png

1801 ms

MAFIA%20Bike%20Logo.png

MAFIA%20Bike%20Logo.png

1830 ms

schwableWhite.png

schwableWhite.png

1854 ms

Shimano%20Final.png

Shimano%20Final.png

1854 ms

facebook.svg

facebook.svg

1882 ms

twitter.svg

twitter.svg

1928 ms

instagram.svg

instagram.svg

1948 ms

pinterest.svg

pinterest.svg

1964 ms

youtube.svg

youtube.svg

1950 ms

linkedin.svg

linkedin.svg

2282 ms

tiktok.svg

tiktok.svg

2012 ms

strava.svg

strava.svg

2032 ms

snapchat.svg

snapchat.svg

2049 ms

nner-book-webfont.woff

nner-book-webfont.woff

1860 ms

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2008 ms

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2006 ms

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2007 ms

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51 ms

collect

collect

219 ms

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442 ms

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157 ms

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183 ms

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172 ms

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180 ms

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183 ms

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175 ms

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198 ms

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196 ms

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222 ms

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419 ms

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25 ms

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39 ms

roboto-black-webfont.woff

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204 ms

Accessibility Review

switchbackcycles.co.uk accessibility score

65

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

switchbackcycles.co.uk best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

switchbackcycles.co.uk SEO score

83

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Switchbackcycles.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 Switchbackcycles.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

switchbackcycles.co.uk

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