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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

thompsons-online.co.uk

Thompsons Discount Electricals, Bargain Electrical Products

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

388 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

392 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thompsons-online.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 388 ms and then it took 4.3 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

thompsons-online.co.uk performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thompsons-online.co.uk

388 ms

stylesheet.css

458 ms

stylesheet_css_buttons.css

386 ms

stylesheet_shipping_rates_in_cart.css

402 ms

logo.gif

617 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Thompsons-online.co.uk, 7% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Pubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thompsons-online.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 168.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thompsons-online.co.uk main page is 2.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 24.9 kB
  • After minification 21.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.0 kB, which is 12% 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 19.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 129.0 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Thompsons Online images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 24.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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. Thompsons-online.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (55%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thompsons Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thompsons-online.co.uk

thompsons-online.co.uk

388 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

458 ms

stylesheet_css_buttons.css

stylesheet_css_buttons.css

386 ms

stylesheet_shipping_rates_in_cart.css

stylesheet_shipping_rates_in_cart.css

402 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

617 ms

search_header_button.gif

search_header_button.gif

425 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

430 ms

Jason%20Tandy%20Malvern.jpg

Jason%20Tandy%20Malvern.jpg

728 ms

Thompsons%20Online%20Map%20Small.jpg

Thompsons%20Online%20Map%20Small.jpg

1131 ms

call_for_prices.gif

call_for_prices.gif

514 ms

twin%20tub%20rubber%20hose.jpg

twin%20tub%20rubber%20hose.jpg

705 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

86 ms

ezpages_bg.gif

ezpages_bg.gif

118 ms

top_nav_right_bg.gif

top_nav_right_bg.gif

139 ms

bg_tabs_left.gif

bg_tabs_left.gif

223 ms

home_tab.gif

home_tab.gif

223 ms

bg_tabs_right.gif

bg_tabs_right.gif

250 ms

search_header_bg.gif

search_header_bg.gif

309 ms

cart_empty_icon.gif

cart_empty_icon.gif

310 ms

dotted_line.gif

dotted_line.gif

316 ms

main_sidebox_left.gif

main_sidebox_left.gif

353 ms

main_sidebox_right.gif

main_sidebox_right.gif

351 ms

arrow.gif

arrow.gif

389 ms

sidebox_left.gif

sidebox_left.gif

396 ms

sidebox_right.gif

sidebox_right.gif

402 ms

1%20Front%20Slight%20Angle%20X11-1-B.jpg

1%20Front%20Slight%20Angle%20X11-1-B.jpg

2996 ms

destination

destination

53 ms

activity;xsp=294510;ord=6215324001386.762

activity;xsp=294510;ord=6215324001386.762

414 ms

activity;xsp=294630;ord=1;num=1026710455771.5356

activity;xsp=294630;ord=1;num=1026710455771.5356

473 ms

print_stylesheet.css

print_stylesheet.css

86 ms

Accessibility Review

thompsons-online.co.uk accessibility score

62

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thompsons-online.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

thompsons-online.co.uk SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thompsons-online.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 Thompsons-online.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

thompsons-online.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Thompsons Online. 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: