Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

thewatchsource.co.uk

The Watch Source - Discounted Swiss Luxury Watches

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

138 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

174 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thewatchsource.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 138 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thewatchsource.co.uk performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,540 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.105

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thewatchsource.co.uk

138 ms

thewatchsource.co.uk

139 ms

www.thewatchsource.co.uk

331 ms

js

63 ms

js

106 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Thewatchsource.co.uk, 15% (8 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (712 ms) belongs to the original domain Thewatchsource.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 43.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

615.9 kB

After Optimization

572.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Thewatchsource.co.uk main page is 615.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 366.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 41.4 kB

  • Original 51.5 kB
  • After minification 51.3 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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 41.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 315 B

  • Original 366.2 kB
  • After minification 365.9 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 Watch Source images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 397 B

  • Original 145.4 kB
  • After minification 145.4 kB
  • After compression 145.0 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 52.8 kB
  • After minification 52.8 kB
  • After compression 51.2 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. Thewatchsource.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (43%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Watch Source. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thewatchsource.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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thewatchsource.co.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

thewatchsource.co.uk SEO score

99

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 Thewatchsource.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 Thewatchsource.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 Watch Source. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: