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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

watermatters.biz

Water Matters (UK) – Water Supply Pipe Leak Detection and Water Supply Pipe Replacement « www.watermatters.biz

Page Load Speed

12.5 sec in total

First Response

4.4 sec

Resources Loaded

7.9 sec

Page Rendered

183 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Water Matters content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about watermatters.biz

Water Matters (UK) Ltd provide expert, quality services from detecting water leaks to water mains and supply pipe installation and appliance testing

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Key Findings

We analyzed Watermatters.biz page load time and found that the first response time was 4.4 sec and then it took 8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

watermatters.biz performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

watermatters.biz

4408 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

344 ms

style.min.css

452 ms

classic-themes.min.css

364 ms

icon.css

352 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Watermatters.biz, 7% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Watermatters.biz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 120.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Watermatters.biz main page is 1.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 46.0 kB

  • Original 57.5 kB
  • After minification 54.5 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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 46.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 33.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Water Matters images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 165.0 kB
  • After minification 164.9 kB
  • After compression 144.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 20.7 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 61.8 kB
  • After minification 61.8 kB
  • After compression 41.2 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. Watermatters.biz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.6 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (81%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Water Matters. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

watermatters.biz

watermatters.biz

4408 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

344 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

452 ms

classic-themes.min.css

classic-themes.min.css

364 ms

icon.css

icon.css

352 ms

style.css

style.css

356 ms

settings.css

settings.css

340 ms

dynamic-captions.css

dynamic-captions.css

695 ms

static-captions.css

static-captions.css

699 ms

style.css

style.css

697 ms

wp125.css

wp125.css

372 ms

pagenavi-css.css

pagenavi-css.css

696 ms

reset.css

reset.css

694 ms

text.css

text.css

809 ms

960.css

960.css

1039 ms

superfish.css

superfish.css

1027 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

1043 ms

style.css

style.css

1122 ms

custom_style.css

custom_style.css

1044 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

1138 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1443 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

1374 ms

script.js

script.js

1400 ms

jquery.themepunch.plugins.min.js

jquery.themepunch.plugins.min.js

1469 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

1560 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

28 ms

awstats.js

awstats.js

1490 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

1813 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

1747 ms

cycle3_script.js

cycle3_script.js

1815 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

1820 ms

custom_params.js

custom_params.js

1839 ms

superfish.combined.js

superfish.combined.js

1881 ms

script.js

script.js

2095 ms

selectnav.min.js

selectnav.min.js

2135 ms

selectnav-options.js

selectnav-options.js

2165 ms

ga.js

ga.js

33 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

32 ms

WM_logo_web12.png

WM_logo_web12.png

337 ms

searchbox.png

searchbox.png

645 ms

main-menu-btm-border.png

main-menu-btm-border.png

646 ms

sf-menu-bg.png

sf-menu-bg.png

646 ms

scene12.jpg

scene12.jpg

766 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

873 ms

scene23.jpg

scene23.jpg

791 ms

Water-Matters-UK-Mains-Water-Supply-Installation-Stop-taps.jpg

Water-Matters-UK-Mains-Water-Supply-Installation-Stop-taps.jpg

413 ms

Water-Matters-UK-at-Bristol-Cathedral-slider.jpg

Water-Matters-UK-at-Bristol-Cathedral-slider.jpg

501 ms

8066632_m.jpg

8066632_m.jpg

649 ms

slider-controls.png

slider-controls.png

911 ms

home-page-before-content-top.png

home-page-before-content-top.png

949 ms

home-page-content-top.png

home-page-content-top.png

942 ms

heading_underline.png

heading_underline.png

961 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

987 ms

awstats_misc_tracker.js

awstats_misc_tracker.js

1858 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

42 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

51 ms

collect

collect

48 ms

98 ms

js

js

96 ms

slider-bullet.png

slider-bullet.png

605 ms

auto-arrows.png

auto-arrows.png

632 ms

Accessibility Review

watermatters.biz accessibility score

64

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

watermatters.biz best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

watermatters.biz SEO score

85

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

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

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 Watermatters.biz 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 Watermatters.biz 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

watermatters.biz

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