Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

thamescommercial.co.uk

Wholesale - water and waste services for business customers | Thames Water

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

350 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

227 ms

thamescommercial.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to thamescommercial.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Thames Commercial best content right away, or after learning these important things about thamescommercial.co.uk

Hello, we're the UK's largest water and waste water wholesale service provider. Learn more about our services for businesses and non-household customers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thamescommercial.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 350 ms and then it took 3.1 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

thamescommercial.co.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,120 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.057

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

commercialservices

350 ms

wholesale

581 ms

svg-polyfill.min.js

331 ms

2.d87bba2e.chunk.css

349 ms

main.0dc234f4.chunk.css

342 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Thamescommercial.co.uk, 36% (8 requests) were made to and 5% (1 request) were made to Cloud.typography.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (918 ms) relates to the external source Thameswater.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 204.8 kB (45%)

Content Size

459.7 kB

After Optimization

254.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Thamescommercial.co.uk main page is 459.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 284.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 135.2 kB

  • Original 159.2 kB
  • After minification 159.2 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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 135.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 16.1 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.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 69.6 kB

  • Original 284.4 kB
  • After minification 284.0 kB
  • After compression 214.8 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. Thamescommercial.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 69.6 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (58%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thames Commercial. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thamescommercial.co.uk accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

thamescommercial.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thamescommercial.co.uk SEO score

96

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

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 Thamescommercial.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 Thamescommercial.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 Thames Commercial. 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: