Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

thehomelightingcentre.co.uk

The Home Lighting Centre | Decorative Designer Lighting Specialists

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

677 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

321 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Home Lighting Centre content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thehomelightingcentre.co.uk

Welcome to The Home Lighting Centre - The decorative lighting specialists. Find designer lighting for your home with FREE UK delivery & price match.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehomelightingcentre.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 677 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thehomelightingcentre.co.uk performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,710 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thehomelightingcentre.co.uk

677 ms

js

86 ms

EnhancedEcommerce,blank-140820241117-1.js

104 ms

gtm.js

104 ms

analytics.js

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Thehomelightingcentre.co.uk, 10% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 10% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (677 ms) belongs to the original domain Thehomelightingcentre.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 300.7 kB (39%)

Content Size

781.1 kB

After Optimization

480.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Thehomelightingcentre.co.uk main page is 781.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 367.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 299.8 kB

  • Original 367.1 kB
  • After minification 366.5 kB
  • After compression 67.3 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 299.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 417 B

  • Original 156.9 kB
  • After minification 156.4 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. The Home Lighting Centre images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 529 B

  • Original 257.1 kB
  • After minification 257.1 kB
  • After compression 256.6 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (45%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Home Lighting Centre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thehomelightingcentre.co.uk accessibility score

88

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

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

thehomelightingcentre.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thehomelightingcentre.co.uk SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Thehomelightingcentre.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 Thehomelightingcentre.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 The Home Lighting Centre. 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: