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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

taps4u.co.uk

Basin Taps | Bathroom & Bath Taps | Bathroom Basin Taps UK @ Taps4U

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

450 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

138 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Taps4u.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 450 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

taps4u.co.uk performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.273

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.taps4u.co.uk

450 ms

jquery.min.js

21 ms

jquery.custom-scrollbar.css

203 ms

styles.min.css

227 ms

css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Taps4u.co.uk, 7% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Taps4u.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 73.0 kB (10%)

Content Size

760.9 kB

After Optimization

687.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Taps4u.co.uk main page is 760.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 570.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 35.8 kB
  • After minification 29.6 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 6.2 kB, which is 17% 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 26.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 41.0 kB

  • Original 570.9 kB
  • After minification 529.8 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. Taps4U images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 93.3 kB
  • After minification 93.3 kB
  • After compression 88.1 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 66 B

  • Original 61.1 kB
  • After minification 61.1 kB
  • After compression 61.0 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. Taps4u.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (38%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Taps4U. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.taps4u.co.uk

www.taps4u.co.uk

450 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

21 ms

jquery.custom-scrollbar.css

jquery.custom-scrollbar.css

203 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

227 ms

css

css

30 ms

all.css

all.css

118 ms

menu.js

menu.js

224 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

19 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

218 ms

jcarousel.min.js

jcarousel.min.js

224 ms

jquery.custom-scrollbar.min.js

jquery.custom-scrollbar.min.js

284 ms

forms.js

forms.js

407 ms

custom.js

custom.js

419 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

50 ms

hotjar-1705453.js

hotjar-1705453.js

121 ms

top-cards.png

top-cards.png

192 ms

logo.png

logo.png

194 ms

icon-basket.svg

icon-basket.svg

196 ms

logo-affixed.png

logo-affixed.png

195 ms

icon-exchanges.svg

icon-exchanges.svg

343 ms

icon-truck.svg

icon-truck.svg

373 ms

icon-boxes.svg

icon-boxes.svg

381 ms

lovell.jpg

lovell.jpg

400 ms

bristanshowers.jpg

bristanshowers.jpg

679 ms

coppertaps.jpg

coppertaps.jpg

407 ms

motiontaps.jpg

motiontaps.jpg

733 ms

kitchen-taps.jpg

kitchen-taps.jpg

562 ms

kitchen-sinks.jpg

kitchen-sinks.jpg

681 ms

bathroom-taps.jpg

bathroom-taps.jpg

603 ms

vanity%20unitys.jpg

vanity%20unitys.jpg

604 ms

footerlogo.png

footerlogo.png

755 ms

paypalloading.png

paypalloading.png

807 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

806 ms

loading.svg

loading.svg

874 ms

sofiapro-regular-webfont.woff

sofiapro-regular-webfont.woff

985 ms

sofiapro-bold-webfont.woff

sofiapro-bold-webfont.woff

1019 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

70 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

91 ms

backtotop.png

backtotop.png

914 ms

ec.js

ec.js

6 ms

collect

collect

11 ms

modules.a4fd7e5489291affcf56.js

modules.a4fd7e5489291affcf56.js

19 ms

Accessibility Review

taps4u.co.uk accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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.

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

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

taps4u.co.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

taps4u.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Taps4u.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 Taps4u.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

taps4u.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Taps4U. 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: