Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

aplexpress.co.uk

Gift Boxes, Paper Bags, and E-Commerce Packaging - APL Packaging

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

368 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

aplexpress.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aplexpress.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 368 ms and then it took 3.2 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

aplexpress.co.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value35,030 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.195

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.aplpackaging.co.uk

368 ms

rocket-loader.min.js

47 ms

bootstrap-light.min.css

89 ms

base.min.css

126 ms

woo-widget-price-filter.min.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Aplexpress.co.uk, 2% (2 requests) were made to Stats.wp.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Eu-library.klarnaservices.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (487 ms) relates to the external source Js.hs-scripts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 269.4 kB (37%)

Content Size

733.0 kB

After Optimization

463.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Aplexpress.co.uk main page is 733.0 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. 75% 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. HTML takes 306.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 268.0 kB

  • Original 306.3 kB
  • After minification 246.2 kB
  • After compression 38.3 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 60.1 kB, which is 20% 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 268.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 131.2 kB
  • After minification 131.2 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. APL Express images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 323 B

  • Original 101.8 kB
  • After minification 101.8 kB
  • After compression 101.5 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 193.7 kB
  • After minification 193.7 kB
  • After compression 192.6 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. Aplexpress.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 81 (96%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of APL Express. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 45 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

aplexpress.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.

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

aplexpress.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

aplexpress.co.uk SEO score

90

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Aplexpress.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 Aplexpress.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 APL Express. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: