Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

thepackagingcompany.co.uk

The Packaging Company | Packaging Materials | Cartons Boxes | Strapping | Tapes | Leicester | 0116 2313444

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

241 ms

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About Website

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The Packaging Company in Leicester offers a huge range of packaging materials and packaging consumables to the public, retail and trade members at highly competitive prices.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepackagingcompany.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 2 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

thepackagingcompany.co.uk performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value910 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.543

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thepackagingcompany.co.uk

165 ms

thepackagingcompany.co.uk

378 ms

style

170 ms

analytics

239 ms

jquery.js

509 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Thepackagingcompany.co.uk, 12% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (624 ms) belongs to the original domain Thepackagingcompany.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.5 kB (4%)

Content Size

867.4 kB

After Optimization

833.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Thepackagingcompany.co.uk main page is 867.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 445.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 12.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 404.8 kB
  • After minification 390.5 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 Packaging Company images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 445.4 kB
  • After minification 445.4 kB
  • After compression 438.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (39%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Packaging Company. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thepackagingcompany.co.uk accessibility score

94

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.

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

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

Best Practices

thepackagingcompany.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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thepackagingcompany.co.uk SEO score

89

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 Thepackagingcompany.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 Thepackagingcompany.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 Packaging Company. 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: