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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

univar.co.uk

Chemical & Ingredients Distributor EMEA | Univar Solutions

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

401 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

350 ms

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About Website

Visit univar.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Univar content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about univar.co.uk

Univar Solutions brings you a unique combination of access to global trends, chemicals & ingredients in EMEA. Contact us today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Univar.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 401 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

univar.co.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,720 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.16

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

univar.co.uk

401 ms

393 ms

801 ms

plugins.css

43 ms

default.css

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Univar.co.uk, 56% (37 requests) were made to Discover.univarsolutions.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Discover.univarsolutions.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 159.3 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Univar.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 835.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 143.4 kB

  • Original 169.3 kB
  • After minification 148.6 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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 20.7 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 143.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 835.6 kB
  • After minification 835.6 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. Univar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 214.6 kB
  • After minification 214.6 kB
  • After compression 207.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 86.2 kB
  • After minification 86.2 kB
  • After compression 77.7 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. Univar.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (42%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Univar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

univar.co.uk

univar.co.uk

401 ms

393 ms

801 ms

plugins.css

plugins.css

43 ms

default.css

default.css

48 ms

theme.css

theme.css

55 ms

custom.css

custom.css

47 ms

pdz5qrm.css

pdz5qrm.css

129 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

23 ms

datatables.min.js

datatables.min.js

72 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

32 ms

api.js

api.js

37 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

58 ms

search.js

search.js

31 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

28 ms

collect.js

collect.js

22 ms

p.css

p.css

36 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

375 ms

logo-univar.svg

logo-univar.svg

314 ms

track_page_view

track_page_view

321 ms

EMEA_banner.2d43893cc9ef3517824746e94ab2c4417309.png

EMEA_banner.2d43893cc9ef3517824746e94ab2c4417309.png

274 ms

ema_land_head.jpg

ema_land_head.jpg

268 ms

beauty-personal.png

beauty-personal.png

274 ms

bulk-0130.jpg

bulk-0130.jpg

274 ms

nutri-2.jpeg

nutri-2.jpeg

274 ms

CASE-0130.jpg

CASE-0130.jpg

273 ms

food-ingredients.jpg

food-ingredients.jpg

471 ms

hii-0130.jpg

hii-0130.jpg

491 ms

pharama-0131.jpg

pharama-0131.jpg

471 ms

suppliers-2.jpg

suppliers-2.jpg

478 ms

emea_careers_head.jpg

emea_careers_head.jpg

469 ms

emea-leadershp.jpg

emea-leadershp.jpg

470 ms

emea_reach.jpg

emea_reach.jpg

693 ms

emea-terems.jpg

emea-terems.jpg

697 ms

quick-contact-bg.jpeg

quick-contact-bg.jpeg

2275 ms

form_bg_orange_shape.png

form_bg_orange_shape.png

500 ms

logo-univar-white.svg

logo-univar-white.svg

510 ms

region_emea.svg

region_emea.svg

538 ms

region_latam.svg

region_latam.svg

530 ms

region_na.svg

region_na.svg

544 ms

region_asia.svg

region_asia.svg

558 ms

d

d

33 ms

d

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55 ms

d

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56 ms

d

d

57 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

910 ms

fa-light-300.woff

fa-light-300.woff

955 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

933 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

1024 ms

main.js

main.js

680 ms

js

js

54 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

24 ms

notice

notice

126 ms

hotjar-2280617.js

hotjar-2280617.js

118 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

10 ms

collect

collect

85 ms

collect

collect

107 ms

collect

collect

92 ms

collect

collect

90 ms

collect

collect

113 ms

trackatron4.js

trackatron4.js

35 ms

modules.404c8789d11e259a4872.js

modules.404c8789d11e259a4872.js

27 ms

log

log

77 ms

v1.7-518

v1.7-518

16 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

66 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

66 ms

Accessibility Review

univar.co.uk accessibility score

87

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

univar.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

univar.co.uk SEO score

90

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

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 Univar.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 Univar.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

univar.co.uk

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