Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

a1carpetandflooring.co.uk

A1 Carpet and Flooring Ltd | Hertfordshire | Carpet & Flooring Shop

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

323 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

220 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing A1 Carpet And Flooring content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about a1carpetandflooring.co.uk

A1 Carpet and Flooring Ltd is your local flooring shop offering a large selection of flooring options throughout the Hertfordshire area. Contact us today for a free consultation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed A1carpetandflooring.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 323 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

a1carpetandflooring.co.uk performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.053

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

a1carpetandflooring.co.uk

323 ms

jsWPRedirect.js

175 ms

nivo-slider.css

186 ms

jquery-1.4.3.min.js

431 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

267 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original A1carpetandflooring.co.uk, 25% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 8% (6 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (623 ms) belongs to the original domain A1carpetandflooring.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 491.7 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

618.0 kB

In fact, the total size of A1carpetandflooring.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 487.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 17.2 kB

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 22.7 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. 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 17.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 44.8 kB

  • Original 487.9 kB
  • After minification 443.1 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. A1 Carpet And Flooring images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 221.3 kB

  • Original 347.3 kB
  • After minification 346.6 kB
  • After compression 125.9 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 221.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 208.4 kB

  • Original 251.5 kB
  • After minification 250.1 kB
  • After compression 43.1 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. A1carpetandflooring.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 208.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (55%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of A1 Carpet And Flooring. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

a1carpetandflooring.co.uk accessibility score

71

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

a1carpetandflooring.co.uk best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

a1carpetandflooring.co.uk SEO score

79

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 A1carpetandflooring.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 A1carpetandflooring.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 A1 Carpet And Flooring. 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: