Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

pages.wattswater.com

Watts | Plumbing, Heating and Water Quality Solutions

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

pages.wattswater.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pages.wattswater.com page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pages.wattswater.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value35.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,600 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.042

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pages.wattswater.com

129 ms

pages.wattswater.com

202 ms

watts.com

62 ms

www.watts.com

223 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Pages.wattswater.com, 83% (53 requests) were made to Watts.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (341 ms) relates to the external source Watts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (15%)

Content Size

6.9 MB

After Optimization

5.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Pages.wattswater.com main page is 6.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 142.9 kB

  • Original 157.6 kB
  • After minification 115.9 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 41.8 kB, which is 26% 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 142.9 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 400.0 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 4.7 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. Pages Watts Water images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 486.5 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 486.5 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (41%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pages Watts Water. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pages.wattswater.com accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

pages.wattswater.com 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pages.wattswater.com 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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pages.wattswater.com 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 Pages.wattswater.com 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 Pages Watts Water. 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: