Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

westendhair.co.uk

Westend Hair Salon Glasgow

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

648 ms

westendhair.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to westendhair.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Westend Hair best content right away, or after learning these important things about westendhair.co.uk

Westend Hair is Scotland’s prime destination for professional Aveda hair services. Situated on Great Western Road in the heart of Glasgow’s West End.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westendhair.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westendhair.co.uk performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.16

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westendhair.co.uk

56 ms

westendhair.co.uk

163 ms

www.westendhair.co.uk

391 ms

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21 ms

css2

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Westendhair.co.uk, 7% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Logging.salonguru.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (573 ms) belongs to the original domain Westendhair.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 288.2 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Westendhair.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. 75% 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 945.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 215.1 kB

  • Original 262.3 kB
  • After minification 260.4 kB
  • After compression 47.3 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 215.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 945.0 kB
  • After minification 941.4 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. Westend Hair images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 41.1 kB

  • Original 338.3 kB
  • After minification 338.3 kB
  • After compression 297.2 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 41.1 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 28.5 kB

  • Original 116.0 kB
  • After minification 116.0 kB
  • After compression 87.5 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. Westendhair.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.5 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (75%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Westend Hair. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

westendhair.co.uk accessibility score

94

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

westendhair.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

westendhair.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Westendhair.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 Westendhair.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Westend Hair. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: