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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

online-fabrics.co.uk

Online Fabrics | Fabrics | Fabric Shop | Buy Fabrics Online | Fabric UK

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

886 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

Welcome to online-fabrics.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Online Fabrics best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about online-fabrics.co.uk

Online Fabrics: Buy materials and fabrics online from the UK's leading fabric / material supplier. Free shipping over £50. Dressmaking fabrics, upholstery fabrics, contract textiles.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Online-fabrics.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 886 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

online-fabrics.co.uk performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,440 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.7 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.online-fabrics.co.uk

886 ms

a34059c90508f8b0f570f6d052f1a441.online-fabrics.css.php

163 ms

dae9357400e049f839d1e3b20333f334.jquery.js.php

345 ms

b9486148fab0f4b573fdbb9a8e7de1b2.jqueryui.js.php

383 ms

a942fb8e73dfd51de72e1ba9a649426f.online-fabrics.functions.js.php

317 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Online-fabrics.co.uk, 8% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Online-fabrics.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 499.9 kB (6%)

Content Size

9.0 MB

After Optimization

8.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Online-fabrics.co.uk main page is 9.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 185.8 kB

  • Original 213.5 kB
  • After minification 207.1 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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 185.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 291.2 kB

  • Original 8.6 MB
  • After minification 8.3 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. Online Fabrics images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 168.1 kB
  • After minification 168.1 kB
  • After compression 151.3 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 38.5 kB
  • After minification 38.5 kB
  • After compression 32.4 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. Online-fabrics.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.1 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (47%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Online Fabrics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

online-fabrics.co.uk accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

online-fabrics.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

SEO Factors

online-fabrics.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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Online-fabrics.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Online-fabrics.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Online Fabrics. 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: