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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ductstation.co.uk

Ventilation Ducting Accessories for UK HVAC distributors | DuctStation Ltd

Page Load Speed

8.1 sec in total

First Response

536 ms

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

94 ms

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About Website

Visit ductstation.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Duct Station content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ductstation.co.uk

Ventilation ducting accessories for commercial and domestic HVAC & Ventilation distributors. Quality & competitive duct products from our UK warehouse.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ductstation.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 536 ms and then it took 7.5 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

ductstation.co.uk performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,400 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.357

30/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ductstation.co.uk

536 ms

web.assets_frontend.min.css

353 ms

web.assets_frontend_minimal.min.js

257 ms

js

63 ms

DuctStation%20Ltd.

112 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Ductstation.co.uk, 7% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (536 ms) belongs to the original domain Ductstation.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 53.2 kB (12%)

Content Size

432.0 kB

After Optimization

378.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Ductstation.co.uk main page is 432.0 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 389.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 35.5 kB

  • Original 42.4 kB
  • After minification 33.7 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 8.7 kB, which is 20% 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 35.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 389.6 kB
  • After minification 371.9 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. Duct Station images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Duct Station. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

www.ductstation.co.uk

www.ductstation.co.uk

536 ms

web.assets_frontend.min.css

web.assets_frontend.min.css

353 ms

web.assets_frontend_minimal.min.js

web.assets_frontend_minimal.min.js

257 ms

js

js

63 ms

DuctStation%20Ltd.

DuctStation%20Ltd.

112 ms

Air-Valves-product-page.jpg

Air-Valves-product-page.jpg

112 ms

Fire-Rated-Air-Valves-Banner%20%282%29.jpg

Fire-Rated-Air-Valves-Banner%20%282%29.jpg

190 ms

Fixing-and-supports-sm-slider%20%281%29.jpg

Fixing-and-supports-sm-slider%20%281%29.jpg

271 ms

Flexible-Hose-Ducting-Banner.jpg

Flexible-Hose-Ducting-Banner.jpg

500 ms

Dampers-and-access-doors-page-header.jpg

Dampers-and-access-doors-page-header.jpg

338 ms

Grille-background.jpg

Grille-background.jpg

421 ms

Clamps-and-connectors-product-page.jpg

Clamps-and-connectors-product-page.jpg

341 ms

DuctStation-Group-sm%20%281%29.jpg

DuctStation-Group-sm%20%281%29.jpg

285 ms

VZ_White.png

VZ_White.png

371 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

339 ms

Accessibility Review

ductstation.co.uk accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

ductstation.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ductstation.co.uk SEO score

86

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 Ductstation.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 Ductstation.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

ductstation.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Duct Station. 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: