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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

thefireplacewarehouse.co.uk

The Fireplace Warehouse: Fireplaces, Stoves, Fires & Fireplace Accessories - Fireplace Warehouse

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

436 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

481 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Fireplace Warehouse content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thefireplacewarehouse.co.uk

The Fireplace Warehouse stocks a fantastic range of gas and electric fireplaces, stoves and suites from leading brands. Order online or visit our showrooms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thefireplacewarehouse.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 436 ms and then it took 3.1 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

thefireplacewarehouse.co.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,810 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thefireplacewarehouse.co.uk

436 ms

15fa0c9dff93ab08ad697253737b036c.css

157 ms

7bbd245abcd4e0f9698c7f172677df35.js

629 ms

css

24 ms

28d61e6f492c828b50d22d6269f4c0ee.css

243 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Thefireplacewarehouse.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Thefireplacewarehouse.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (19%)

Content Size

7.5 MB

After Optimization

6.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thefireplacewarehouse.co.uk main page is 7.5 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 5.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 47.2 kB

  • Original 57.1 kB
  • After minification 47.1 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 10.0 kB, which is 17% 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 47.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 53.5 kB

  • Original 5.7 MB
  • After minification 5.7 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. The Fireplace Warehouse images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 952.4 kB
  • After compression 263.2 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 1.0 MB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 304.6 kB

  • Original 346.6 kB
  • After minification 266.4 kB
  • After compression 42.0 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. Thefireplacewarehouse.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 304.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

40

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Fireplace Warehouse. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

www.thefireplacewarehouse.co.uk

www.thefireplacewarehouse.co.uk

436 ms

15fa0c9dff93ab08ad697253737b036c.css

15fa0c9dff93ab08ad697253737b036c.css

157 ms

7bbd245abcd4e0f9698c7f172677df35.js

7bbd245abcd4e0f9698c7f172677df35.js

629 ms

css

css

24 ms

28d61e6f492c828b50d22d6269f4c0ee.css

28d61e6f492c828b50d22d6269f4c0ee.css

243 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.js

jquery.nivo.slider.js

166 ms

ga.js

ga.js

27 ms

logo.png

logo.png

152 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

151 ms

icon_sprite.png

icon_sprite.png

149 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

305 ms

slider.jpg

slider.jpg

819 ms

slider-02.jpg

slider-02.jpg

824 ms

slider-01.jpg

slider-01.jpg

447 ms

slider-03.jpg

slider-03.jpg

756 ms

slider-04.jpg

slider-04.jpg

836 ms

slider-05.jpg

slider-05.jpg

832 ms

slider-06.jpg

slider-06.jpg

675 ms

Video.png

Video.png

752 ms

customer-gallery.png

customer-gallery.png

829 ms

Finance-Panel.png

Finance-Panel.png

833 ms

beautiful-stoves.png

beautiful-stoves.png

895 ms

outdoor-living_1.png

outdoor-living_1.png

900 ms

contemporary-gas-fires.png

contemporary-gas-fires.png

907 ms

traditional_2set_2_8.jpg

traditional_2set_2_8.jpg

909 ms

firecat-5-kw-multifuel-stove_2.jpg

firecat-5-kw-multifuel-stove_2.jpg

910 ms

radius_11.jpg

radius_11.jpg

912 ms

manor-companion-set_1__1.jpg

manor-companion-set_1__1.jpg

971 ms

napoli2.jpg

napoli2.jpg

977 ms

versys_2.jpg

versys_2.jpg

987 ms

sunvision_5_inset.jpg

sunvision_5_inset.jpg

983 ms

verona_optymist.jpg

verona_optymist.jpg

985 ms

icon-warranty.png

icon-warranty.png

988 ms

icon-money-back.png

icon-money-back.png

1047 ms

icon-20-years-son.png

icon-20-years-son.png

1053 ms

payments.jpg

payments.jpg

1059 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

1058 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

103 ms

opc-ajax-loader.gif

opc-ajax-loader.gif

1040 ms

lightbox-next.png

lightbox-next.png

937 ms

lightbox-prev.png

lightbox-prev.png

996 ms

lightbox-close.png

lightbox-close.png

1001 ms

Accessibility Review

thefireplacewarehouse.co.uk accessibility score

76

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

thefireplacewarehouse.co.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thefireplacewarehouse.co.uk SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Thefireplacewarehouse.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 Thefireplacewarehouse.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

thefireplacewarehouse.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Fireplace Warehouse. 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: