Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

travisperkins.co.uk

Travis Perkins | Builders’ Merchant | Building Supplies

Page Load Speed

34.2 sec in total

First Response

444 ms

Resources Loaded

22.2 sec

Page Rendered

11.5 sec

travisperkins.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Travisperkins.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 444 ms and then it took 33.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

travisperkins.co.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,720 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

travisperkins.co.uk

444 ms

www.travisperkins.co.uk

84 ms

www.travisperkins.co.uk

2111 ms

dtagent_ICA23STVhjqr_7000000021011.js

739 ms

entry.js

1893 ms

Our browser made a total of 153 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (121 requests) were addressed to the original Travisperkins.co.uk, 12% (18 requests) were made to Prod1-tp-prod02-aws-travisperkins-com-public.s3.amazonaws.com and 6% (9 requests) were made to Travisperkins.scene7.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (13.2 sec) relates to the external source Prod1-tp-prod02-aws-travisperkins-com-public.s3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 319.4 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Travisperkins.co.uk main page is 1.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 134.7 kB

  • Original 156.3 kB
  • After minification 135.7 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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 20.6 kB, which is 13% 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 134.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 35.0 kB

  • Original 1.5 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. Travis Perkins images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 149.7 kB

  • Original 331.0 kB
  • After minification 324.5 kB
  • After compression 181.3 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 149.7 kB or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 117 (79%)

Requests Now

148

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 148 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Travis Perkins. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 93 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

travisperkins.co.uk accessibility score

76

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

travisperkins.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

travisperkins.co.uk SEO score

71

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Travisperkins.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 Travisperkins.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 Travis Perkins. 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: