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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

themarlowes.co.uk

The Marlowes Hemel Hempstead | Marlowes Shopping Centre

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

431 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

442 ms

themarlowes.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to themarlowes.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check The Marlowes best content right away, or after learning these important things about themarlowes.co.uk

Eat, shop and relax with your favourite brands at The Marlowes, one of Hemel Hempstead's most exciting and vibrant shopping centres.

Visit themarlowes.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Themarlowes.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 431 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

themarlowes.co.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,420 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.7 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

themarlowes.co.uk

431 ms

www.themarlowes.co.uk

155 ms

www.themarlowes.co.uk

983 ms

gtm.js

72 ms

ie10mobilefix

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Themarlowes.co.uk, 6% (4 requests) were made to Script.crazyegg.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Themarlowes.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 87.6 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Themarlowes.co.uk main page is 1.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 31.3 kB

  • Original 39.2 kB
  • After minification 26.8 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 12.4 kB, which is 32% 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 31.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 45.8 kB

  • Original 1.4 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. The Marlowes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 33.8 kB
  • After minification 33.5 kB
  • After compression 26.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 7.1 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 10.4 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. Themarlowes.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.4 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (44%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Marlowes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

themarlowes.co.uk

themarlowes.co.uk

431 ms

www.themarlowes.co.uk

www.themarlowes.co.uk

155 ms

www.themarlowes.co.uk

www.themarlowes.co.uk

983 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

72 ms

ie10mobilefix

ie10mobilefix

95 ms

common-styles

common-styles

333 ms

track.js

track.js

444 ms

vendor-js

vendor-js

580 ms

cse.js

cse.js

93 ms

common-js

common-js

572 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

62 ms

signpost-logo-lightgreen.png

signpost-logo-lightgreen.png

542 ms

our-newsletter.png

our-newsletter.png

541 ms

winwiththemarlowes-1.png

winwiththemarlowes-1.png

886 ms

vission-express.jpg

vission-express.jpg

892 ms

winwiththemarlowes.png

winwiththemarlowes.png

700 ms

Vission-express.png

Vission-express.png

660 ms

1156.jpg

1156.jpg

950 ms

1148.jpg

1148.jpg

621 ms

signpost-cc-green.png

signpost-cc-green.png

703 ms

web-tile-100.jpg

web-tile-100.jpg

792 ms

default-signpost-2.jpg

default-signpost-2.jpg

840 ms

label-co2-website-white-en.png

label-co2-website-white-en.png

345 ms

uwt.js

uwt.js

45 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

90 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

67 ms

js

js

86 ms

adsct

adsct

225 ms

adsct

adsct

225 ms

203979430194780

203979430194780

199 ms

collect

collect

93 ms

marlowes-home-sept-web.jpg

marlowes-home-sept-web.jpg

942 ms

nav-mobile-menu-close.svg

nav-mobile-menu-close.svg

617 ms

the-marlowes-logo-new.png

the-marlowes-logo-new.png

677 ms

nav-mobile-menu.svg

nav-mobile-menu.svg

698 ms

nav-search.svg

nav-search.svg

734 ms

nav-facebook.svg

nav-facebook.svg

715 ms

nav-twitter.svg

nav-twitter.svg

775 ms

nav-instagram.svg

nav-instagram.svg

783 ms

nav-tiktok.svg

nav-tiktok.svg

768 ms

home-icon.svg

home-icon.svg

792 ms

nav-dropdown-expand.svg

nav-dropdown-expand.svg

811 ms

right-arrow-white.svg

right-arrow-white.svg

1045 ms

left-carousel-arrow.svg

left-carousel-arrow.svg

849 ms

right-carousel-arrow.svg

right-carousel-arrow.svg

858 ms

opening-times-icon.svg

opening-times-icon.svg

1046 ms

down-arrow.svg

down-arrow.svg

907 ms

mymarlowes-feature.png

mymarlowes-feature.png

939 ms

offer-circles-lrg.png

offer-circles-lrg.png

942 ms

rewardme-counter.png

rewardme-counter.png

1008 ms

email-icon-white.svg

email-icon-white.svg

1006 ms

tel-icon-white.svg

tel-icon-white.svg

1047 ms

list-arrow-white.svg

list-arrow-white.svg

1017 ms

facebook-icon.svg

facebook-icon.svg

1049 ms

collect

collect

67 ms

proximanova-regular-webfont.woff

proximanova-regular-webfont.woff

957 ms

cse_element__en.js

cse_element__en.js

35 ms

default+en.css

default+en.css

36 ms

default.css

default.css

69 ms

2552.js

2552.js

353 ms

proximanova-bold-webfont.woff

proximanova-bold-webfont.woff

884 ms

proximanova-semibold-webfont.woff

proximanova-semibold-webfont.woff

916 ms

twitter-icon.svg

twitter-icon.svg

841 ms

instagram-icon.svg

instagram-icon.svg

827 ms

tiktok-icon.svg

tiktok-icon.svg

907 ms

capreg-logo.png

capreg-logo.png

811 ms

www.themarlowes.co.uk.json

www.themarlowes.co.uk.json

91 ms

036b9b1280597d15cf37e7acd39c6525.js

036b9b1280597d15cf37e7acd39c6525.js

10 ms

www.themarlowes.co.uk.json

www.themarlowes.co.uk.json

43 ms

Accessibility Review

themarlowes.co.uk accessibility score

88

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

themarlowes.co.uk best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

themarlowes.co.uk SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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 uses legible font sizes

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 Themarlowes.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 Themarlowes.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

themarlowes.co.uk

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