Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

touchstonelighting.co.uk

Lighting Components, Control Gear and Lighting Wholesalers - Touchstone

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

717 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

125 ms

touchstonelighting.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit touchstonelighting.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Touchstone Lighting content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about touchstonelighting.co.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Touchstonelighting.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 717 ms and then it took 1.9 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

touchstonelighting.co.uk performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.295

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.touchstonelighting.co.uk

717 ms

main.css

84 ms

shadowbox.css

170 ms

a-jquery-1.4.2.min.js

341 ms

big-target.js

171 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Touchstonelighting.co.uk, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (717 ms) belongs to the original domain Touchstonelighting.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 152.5 kB (47%)

Content Size

322.0 kB

After Optimization

169.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Touchstonelighting.co.uk main page is 322.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 189.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 10.8 kB
  • After minification 10.6 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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 7.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 97.6 kB
  • After minification 95.4 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. Touchstone Lighting images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 122.0 kB

  • Original 189.1 kB
  • After minification 169.3 kB
  • After compression 67.1 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 122.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 20.8 kB

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 18.0 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. Touchstonelighting.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (62%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Touchstone Lighting. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

touchstonelighting.co.uk accessibility score

91

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

touchstonelighting.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

touchstonelighting.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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Touchstonelighting.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 Touchstonelighting.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Touchstone Lighting. 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: