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Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

weathervanes-direct.co.uk

Weathervanes, Wind Vanes, Weathercock, Traditional & Bespoke Weathervane Designs Online, Dorset Weathervanes UK

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

192 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

126 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Weathervanes-direct.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 192 ms and then it took 2.8 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

weathervanes-direct.co.uk performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

weathervanes-direct.co.uk

192 ms

weathervanes-direct.co.uk

1278 ms

bootstrap.css

375 ms

jquery.js

728 ms

bootstrap.js

417 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Weathervanes-direct.co.uk, 5% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Weathervanes-direct.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 107.7 kB (22%)

Content Size

490.8 kB

After Optimization

383.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Weathervanes-direct.co.uk main page is 490.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 324.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 16.7 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 12.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 324.2 kB
  • After minification 313.5 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. Weathervanes Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 74.8 kB

  • Original 123.9 kB
  • After minification 123.8 kB
  • After compression 49.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 74.8 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 26.0 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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. Weathervanes-direct.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.9 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (21%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Weathervanes Direct. 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

weathervanes-direct.co.uk

weathervanes-direct.co.uk

192 ms

weathervanes-direct.co.uk

weathervanes-direct.co.uk

1278 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

375 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

728 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

417 ms

main.css

main.css

340 ms

dark.css

dark.css

247 ms

support-opt-in.js

support-opt-in.js

319 ms

require-opt-in.js

require-opt-in.js

382 ms

js

js

76 ms

dorset-weathervanes.gif

dorset-weathervanes.gif

111 ms

weathervane-arrow.png

weathervane-arrow.png

205 ms

weathervane-cock.png

weathervane-cock.png

205 ms

weathervane6.jpg

weathervane6.jpg

236 ms

weathervane1.jpg

weathervane1.jpg

298 ms

weathervane2.jpg

weathervane2.jpg

239 ms

weathervane3.jpg

weathervane3.jpg

321 ms

weathervane4.jpg

weathervane4.jpg

417 ms

weathervane5.jpg

weathervane5.jpg

418 ms

fb.gif

fb.gif

341 ms

fb-sml.gif

fb-sml.gif

342 ms

hi-cookie-sprite.png

hi-cookie-sprite.png

336 ms

Accessibility Review

weathervanes-direct.co.uk accessibility score

93

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.

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

weathervanes-direct.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

weathervanes-direct.co.uk 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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Weathervanes-direct.co.uk 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 Weathervanes-direct.co.uk 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

weathervanes-direct.co.uk

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