Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

yateslate.co.uk

Natural Roof Slates For Sale | Roofing Slate Supplier UK | Yates

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

668 ms

yateslate.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Yate Slate content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about yateslate.co.uk

Yates Slate are a leading slate supplier and one of the largest natural roof slates importer and distributor. Call us on 01200 427711.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Yateslate.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

yateslate.co.uk performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,900 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.5

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

yateslate.co.uk

1438 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

144 ms

ad2ce15bdec866d50f82fc383e006b2c.css

229 ms

css

23 ms

b0509854cc057f53b1f4f2980d1b37af.css

331 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Yateslate.co.uk, 14% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Yateslate.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 123.9 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Yateslate.co.uk main page is 2.2 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. 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 121.6 kB

  • Original 147.4 kB
  • After minification 144.4 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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 121.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Yate Slate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 711 B

  • Original 296.4 kB
  • After minification 296.4 kB
  • After compression 295.7 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 425 B

  • Original 148.8 kB
  • After minification 148.8 kB
  • After compression 148.4 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. Yateslate.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (43%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Yate Slate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

yateslate.co.uk accessibility score

91

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

yateslate.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

yateslate.co.uk SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Yateslate.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 Yateslate.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 Yate Slate. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: