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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

thesolartrader.co.uk

The Solar Trader: Wholesale solar panels, accessories, toys & gifts part of select solar limited

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

267 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

233 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesolartrader.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 267 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thesolartrader.co.uk performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

67/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesolartrader.co.uk

267 ms

www.thesolartrader.co.uk

529 ms

screen.css

412 ms

colorbox.css

84 ms

jquery.min.js

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (76 requests) were addressed to the original Thesolartrader.co.uk, 9% (8 requests) were made to C1008053.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Thesolartrader.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 283.6 kB (42%)

Content Size

679.4 kB

After Optimization

395.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thesolartrader.co.uk main page is 679.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 468.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 20.8 kB

  • Original 27.0 kB
  • After minification 26.5 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 20.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 202.4 kB

  • Original 468.5 kB
  • After minification 266.1 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. Obviously, The Solar Trader needs image optimization as it can save up to 202.4 kB or 43% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 54.5 kB

  • Original 158.0 kB
  • After minification 157.0 kB
  • After compression 103.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 54.5 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 25.8 kB
  • After minification 24.8 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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. Thesolartrader.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.8 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (61%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

34

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Solar Trader. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 32 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thesolartrader.co.uk accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

thesolartrader.co.uk best practices score

50

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thesolartrader.co.uk SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thesolartrader.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 Thesolartrader.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 The Solar Trader. 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: