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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

watco.ie

Watco - Industrial Floor Repair & Coatings | Watco

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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About Website

Visit watco.ie now to see the best up-to-date Watco content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about watco.ie

UK based manufacturer of high performance paint and repair for floors, steps and ramps. Free quotes, samples and expert advice for your project.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Watco.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

watco.ie performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.375

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.1 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

watco.ie

41 ms

www.watco.ie

3297 ms

production.bundle.e575bcde61d1dc3fd307.css

325 ms

api.js

31 ms

production.e575bcde61d1dc3fd307.js

452 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 18% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Watco.ie, 73% (37 requests) were made to Assets.watco.ie and 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Watco.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 175.2 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Watco.ie main page is 1.2 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 699.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 174.2 kB

  • Original 192.4 kB
  • After minification 146.3 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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 46.1 kB, which is 24% 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 174.2 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 699.6 kB
  • After minification 699.6 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. Watco images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 219.3 kB
  • After minification 219.3 kB
  • After compression 218.3 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 117.8 kB
  • After minification 117.8 kB
  • After compression 117.8 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. Watco.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (9%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

41

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Watco. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

watco.ie

watco.ie

41 ms

www.watco.ie

www.watco.ie

3297 ms

production.bundle.e575bcde61d1dc3fd307.css

production.bundle.e575bcde61d1dc3fd307.css

325 ms

api.js

api.js

31 ms

production.e575bcde61d1dc3fd307.js

production.e575bcde61d1dc3fd307.js

452 ms

vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015

vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015

62 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

385 ms

logo

logo

476 ms

RAL_Range_Banner_IE.jpg

RAL_Range_Banner_IE.jpg

408 ms

watco-logo-red.png

watco-logo-red.png

384 ms

Homepage-banner.jpg

Homepage-banner.jpg

410 ms

aboutus.jpg

aboutus.jpg

454 ms

virtual-site-visits.jpg

virtual-site-visits.jpg

453 ms

Help-advice.jpg

Help-advice.jpg

455 ms

brands.jpg

brands.jpg

452 ms

top-innovations.jpg

top-innovations.jpg

457 ms

toyota-hp.jpg

toyota-hp.jpg

429 ms

Tesco-hp.jpg

Tesco-hp.jpg

446 ms

Wembley.jpg

Wembley.jpg

459 ms

SNCF-web.jpg

SNCF-web.jpg

466 ms

Kennel-club-web.jpg

Kennel-club-web.jpg

469 ms

Heathrow-web.jpg

Heathrow-web.jpg

467 ms

Knauf-web.jpg

Knauf-web.jpg

468 ms

Amazon.jpg

Amazon.jpg

470 ms

Kier.jpg

Kier.jpg

475 ms

Network-rail.jpg

Network-rail.jpg

480 ms

Harrods_web.jpg

Harrods_web.jpg

480 ms

University_liverpool.jpg

University_liverpool.jpg

481 ms

flowpatch.jpg

flowpatch.jpg

484 ms

epoxicote_hb.jpg

epoxicote_hb.jpg

483 ms

cxcf_buckets_comp.jpg

cxcf_buckets_comp.jpg

793 ms

heavy_duty_anti_slip_traffic_paint.jpg

heavy_duty_anti_slip_traffic_paint.jpg

743 ms

safety_coat.jpg

safety_coat.jpg

812 ms

universal_sealer_dustproofer.jpg

universal_sealer_dustproofer.jpg

816 ms

concrete_floor_paint.jpg

concrete_floor_paint.jpg

849 ms

epoxicote_hb_anti_slip.jpg

epoxicote_hb_anti_slip.jpg

569 ms

concrete_floor_paint_anti_slip.jpg

concrete_floor_paint_anti_slip.jpg

867 ms

watco_specialist_bundsealer_can.jpg

watco_specialist_bundsealer_can.jpg

1024 ms

safety_grip.jpg

safety_grip.jpg

1117 ms

grp_sheet_downramp_resized_600_x_600.jpg

grp_sheet_downramp_resized_600_x_600.jpg

1204 ms

flowtop_packshot.jpg

flowtop_packshot.jpg

1187 ms

DC-Awards22.jpg

DC-Awards22.jpg

870 ms

Growth-award-winner-150.jpg

Growth-award-winner-150.jpg

887 ms

nbs-logo-web.jpg

nbs-logo-web.jpg

884 ms

BCF-Member-logo-white.png

BCF-Member-logo-white.png

899 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

324 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

605 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

906 ms

fa-light-300.woff

fa-light-300.woff

291 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

342 ms

Ferfa.jpg

Ferfa.jpg

504 ms

Accessibility Review

watco.ie accessibility score

84

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

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Best Practices

watco.ie 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

watco.ie 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

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 Watco.ie 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 Watco.ie 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

watco.ie

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