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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

westmidlandsfixings.co.uk

Parabolt, Construction Fixings, West Midlands Fixings

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

840 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

785 ms

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About Website

Welcome to westmidlandsfixings.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check West Midlands Fixings best content right away, or after learning these important things about westmidlandsfixings.co.uk

West Midlands Fixings is an online shop to buy the complete range of Parabolt Construction Fixings. Buy from stock or click & collect from the trade counter.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westmidlandsfixings.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 840 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

westmidlandsfixings.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.westmidlandsfixings.co.uk

840 ms

splide.min.css

40 ms

base.css

41 ms

buttons.css

43 ms

style.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Westmidlandsfixings.co.uk, 34% (24 requests) were made to Files.ekmcdn.com and 17% (12 requests) were made to Themes.cdn.ekm.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (840 ms) belongs to the original domain Westmidlandsfixings.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 125.7 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Westmidlandsfixings.co.uk 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 110.0 kB

  • Original 134.6 kB
  • After minification 119.3 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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 15.3 kB, which is 11% 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 110.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. West Midlands Fixings images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 141.4 kB
  • After minification 139.9 kB
  • After compression 137.5 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 51.8 kB
  • After minification 51.6 kB
  • After compression 48.5 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. Westmidlandsfixings.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (48%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of West Midlands Fixings. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.westmidlandsfixings.co.uk

www.westmidlandsfixings.co.uk

840 ms

splide.min.css

splide.min.css

40 ms

base.css

base.css

41 ms

buttons.css

buttons.css

43 ms

style.css

style.css

44 ms

blog_post.css

blog_post.css

49 ms

newsletter.css

newsletter.css

47 ms

css2

css2

49 ms

shopui.css

shopui.css

107 ms

showdata-thumbnailhover.min.js

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45 ms

showdata-thumbnailhover.css

showdata-thumbnailhover.css

50 ms

softcart.min.css

softcart.min.css

53 ms

softcart.min.js

softcart.min.js

56 ms

historytracker.js

historytracker.js

54 ms

productimagebadge.css

productimagebadge.css

51 ms

productimagebadge.min.js

productimagebadge.min.js

53 ms

announcementBar.min.js

announcementBar.min.js

51 ms

splide.min.js

splide.min.js

6 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

7 ms

shopui.js

shopui.js

28 ms

embed.js

embed.js

40 ms

stats.js

stats.js

535 ms

stats-global.js

stats-global.js

533 ms

css

css

15 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

140 ms

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199 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

30 ms

fa-safe.css

fa-safe.css

61 ms

collect

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174 ms

gbp.svg

gbp.svg

126 ms

fixings-logo.png

fixings-logo.png

163 ms

loading.png

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117 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

122 ms

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98 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

179 ms

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114 ms

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128 ms

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128 ms

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130 ms

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130 ms

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166 ms

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133 ms

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133 ms

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133 ms

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134 ms

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166 ms

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167 ms

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166 ms

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168 ms

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168 ms

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168 ms

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203 ms

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parabolt_logo-removebg-preview_(1)_1643293623.png

167 ms

paypal.png

paypal.png

98 ms

mastercard.png

mastercard.png

97 ms

dell.svg

dell.svg

111 ms

bose.svg

bose.svg

103 ms

panasonic.svg

panasonic.svg

107 ms

sony.svg

sony.svg

99 ms

apple.svg

apple.svg

121 ms

js

js

58 ms

collect

collect

40 ms

js

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104 ms

collect

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79 ms

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50 ms

Accessibility Review

westmidlandsfixings.co.uk accessibility score

92

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

westmidlandsfixings.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

westmidlandsfixings.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Westmidlandsfixings.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 Westmidlandsfixings.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

westmidlandsfixings.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of West Midlands Fixings. 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: