Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

antiques-now.co.uk

Welcome to Antiques Now | Antiques-Now

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

335 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

819 ms

antiques-now.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Antiques Now content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about antiques-now.co.uk

Antiques for sale on the uk based antique selling and buying website. We have all kinds of antiques for sale and a good selection of associated antiques traders.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Antiques-now.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 335 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

antiques-now.co.uk performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.149

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

antiques-now.co.uk

335 ms

antiques-now-css.css

210 ms

adsbygoogle.js

17 ms

counter_xhtml.js

21 ms

ga.js

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Antiques-now.co.uk, 18% (10 requests) were made to S3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source S3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 95.2 kB (33%)

Content Size

292.3 kB

After Optimization

197.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Antiques-now.co.uk main page is 292.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 112.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 54.6 kB

  • Original 65.8 kB
  • After minification 60.9 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. 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 54.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 99.5 kB
  • After minification 92.6 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. Antiques Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 21.5 kB

  • Original 112.5 kB
  • After minification 112.4 kB
  • After compression 91.1 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 21.5 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 14.5 kB
  • After minification 10.2 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Antiques-now.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (29%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Antiques Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

antiques-now.co.uk accessibility score

82

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

antiques-now.co.uk best practices score

58

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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

antiques-now.co.uk SEO score

70

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

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 Antiques-now.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 Antiques-now.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 Antiques Now. 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: