Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

upper38.co.uk

Award winning salon Plymouth - affordable balayage and perm specialists

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

303 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

612 ms

upper38.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit upper38.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Upper 38 content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about upper38.co.uk

Specialising in balayage, colours, and perms, Upper38 is an affordable, multi award-winning Hairdressers Barbers Beauty Salon, Plymouth

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Key Findings

We analyzed Upper38.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 303 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

upper38.co.uk performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.5 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,140 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.0 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

upper38.co.uk

303 ms

www.upper38.co.uk

843 ms

style.css

79 ms

fonts.css

154 ms

foundation.css

231 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Upper38.co.uk, 13% (14 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Upper38.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 150.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Upper38.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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 46.1 kB

  • Original 60.6 kB
  • After minification 58.7 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 46.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 100.8 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Upper 38 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 137.8 kB
  • After minification 137.8 kB
  • After compression 134.8 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 909 B

  • Original 34.4 kB
  • After minification 34.4 kB
  • After compression 33.5 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. Upper38.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (46%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Upper 38. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

upper38.co.uk accessibility score

79

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

upper38.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

upper38.co.uk SEO score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Upper38.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 Upper38.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 Upper 38. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: