Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

theepicentre.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

400 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theepicentre.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 400 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theepicentre.co.uk performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value970 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theepicentre.co.uk

400 ms

gtm.js

62 ms

uc.js

177 ms

vendor-v4.js

101 ms

global.js

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (116 requests) were addressed to the original Theepicentre.co.uk, 3% (4 requests) were made to Static-tracking.klaviyo.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Static.klaviyo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (686 ms) belongs to the original domain Theepicentre.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 291.7 kB (3%)

Content Size

9.7 MB

After Optimization

9.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Theepicentre.co.uk main page is 9.7 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. 80% 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 9.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 251.8 kB

  • Original 293.3 kB
  • After minification 252.7 kB
  • After compression 41.5 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 40.6 kB, which is 14% 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 251.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 9.1 MB
  • After minification 9.1 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. The Epicentre images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 231.0 kB
  • After minification 231.0 kB
  • After compression 221.4 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 57.8 kB
  • After minification 57.8 kB
  • After compression 54.2 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. Theepicentre.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 84 (68%)

Requests Now

124

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 124 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Epicentre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 55 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

theepicentre.co.uk accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Best Practices

theepicentre.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

theepicentre.co.uk SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 doesn't use 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 Theepicentre.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 Theepicentre.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 data is detected on the main page of The Epicentre. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: