Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

waitrose.ae

Waitrose UAE & Partners | Grocery Delivery in Dubai & Abu Dhabi

Page Load Speed

17.5 sec in total

First Response

220 ms

Resources Loaded

14.4 sec

Page Rendered

2.9 sec

waitrose.ae screenshot

About Website

Welcome to waitrose.ae homepage info - get ready to check Waitrose best content for United Arab Emirates right away, or after learning these important things about waitrose.ae

Buy quality groceries online from Waitrose UAE & Partners Supermarket. Free delivery in Dubai & Abu Dhabi on orders over 350AED.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waitrose.ae page load time and found that the first response time was 220 ms and then it took 17.3 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

waitrose.ae performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value60.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,470 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value57.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

waitrose.ae

220 ms

waitrose.ae

287 ms

2133 ms

swiper.min.24f21657c546.css

100 ms

main.7ae6e3408b36.css

168 ms

Our browser made a total of 186 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Waitrose.ae, 77% (143 requests) were made to Prod-waitrose.azureedge.net and 4% (7 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.9 sec) relates to the external source Prod-waitrose.azureedge.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (7%)

Content Size

19.6 MB

After Optimization

18.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Waitrose.ae main page is 19.6 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 17.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 73.7 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 276.9 kB, which is 20% 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 1.3 MB or 95% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 17.3 MB
  • After minification 17.3 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. Waitrose images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 49.2 kB

  • Original 714.4 kB
  • After minification 714.1 kB
  • After compression 665.1 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

-30%

Potential reduce by 37.3 kB

  • Original 122.4 kB
  • After minification 122.4 kB
  • After compression 85.1 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. Waitrose.ae needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.3 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (17%)

Requests Now

175

After Optimization

145

The browser has sent 175 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Waitrose. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

waitrose.ae accessibility score

84

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

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

waitrose.ae best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

waitrose.ae SEO score

79

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Waitrose.ae can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Waitrose.ae 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 Waitrose. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: