Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

houseofbeauty.co.uk

House of Beauty - professional online nail product retailer

Page Load Speed

32.4 sec in total

First Response

452 ms

Resources Loaded

31.6 sec

Page Rendered

382 ms

houseofbeauty.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit houseofbeauty.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date House Of Beauty content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about houseofbeauty.co.uk

Welcome to The Official House of Beauty UK Site. British online shop with professional cosmetics from the USA. Established in Buckingham in 2014.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houseofbeauty.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 452 ms and then it took 31.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

houseofbeauty.co.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,640 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.062

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

houseofbeauty.co.uk

452 ms

houseofbeauty.co.uk

1517 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

45 ms

fontawesome.css

389 ms

brands.css

387 ms

Our browser made a total of 1417 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (1401 requests) were addressed to the original Houseofbeauty.co.uk, 0% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 0% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Houseofbeauty.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (40%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Houseofbeauty.co.uk main page is 5.3 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. 80% 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 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 966.4 kB
  • After compression 90.2 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 813.9 kB, which is 46% 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 1.7 MB or 95% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 443.3 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Obviously, House Of Beauty needs image optimization as it can save up to 443.3 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 119.9 kB
  • After minification 119.9 kB
  • After compression 118.3 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 69.8 kB
  • After minification 69.8 kB
  • After compression 68.1 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. Houseofbeauty.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 914 (65%)

Requests Now

1411

After Optimization

497

The browser has sent 1411 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of House Of Beauty. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

houseofbeauty.co.uk accessibility score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

houseofbeauty.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

houseofbeauty.co.uk SEO score

67

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Houseofbeauty.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Houseofbeauty.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 House Of Beauty. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: