Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

watchbands.co.uk

Watch Straps: Shop Leather, Silicone and NATO Watch Straps

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

228 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

198 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Watchbands.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 228 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

watchbands.co.uk performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

watchbands.co.uk

228 ms

www.watchbands.co.uk

283 ms

www.watchbands.co.uk

979 ms

css

29 ms

style.css

930 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Watchbands.co.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (979 ms) belongs to the original domain Watchbands.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 417.8 kB (56%)

Content Size

747.9 kB

After Optimization

330.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Watchbands.co.uk main page is 747.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 256.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 76.3 kB

  • Original 86.9 kB
  • After minification 71.0 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 15.9 kB, which is 18% 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 76.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 185.4 kB
  • After minification 181.4 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. Watch Bands images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 123.6 kB

  • Original 219.6 kB
  • After minification 208.2 kB
  • After compression 96.0 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 123.6 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 213.9 kB

  • Original 256.1 kB
  • After minification 250.4 kB
  • After compression 42.2 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. Watchbands.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 213.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (40%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Watch Bands. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

watchbands.co.uk accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

watchbands.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

watchbands.co.uk SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Watchbands.co.uk 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 Watchbands.co.uk 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 Watch Bands. 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: