Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

continental.thorntons.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

293 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

3.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Continental.thorntons.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 293 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

continental.thorntons.co.uk performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value38.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value65,570 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.817

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value84.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

continental.thorntons.co.uk

293 ms

continental.thorntons.co.uk

336 ms

app.css

537 ms

main.js

328 ms

gtm.js

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Continental.thorntons.co.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (992 ms) belongs to the original domain Continental.thorntons.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 458.3 kB (8%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Continental.thorntons.co.uk main page is 5.4 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. 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 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 38.5 kB

  • Original 43.0 kB
  • After minification 36.8 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 6.2 kB, which is 14% 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 38.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 169.7 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 4.9 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. Continental Thorntons images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 47.9 kB
  • After minification 47.9 kB
  • After compression 31.0 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 16.9 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-97%

Potential reduce by 233.2 kB

  • Original 240.2 kB
  • After minification 36.5 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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. Continental.thorntons.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 233.2 kB or 97% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Continental Thorntons. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

continental.thorntons.co.uk accessibility score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

SEO Factors

continental.thorntons.co.uk SEO score

71

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

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 Continental.thorntons.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 Continental.thorntons.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 description is not detected on the main page of Continental Thorntons. 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: