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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

band.co.uk

Wedding Chairs | Banqueting Chairs | Wooden Chairs | Clear Chairs | Acrylic Chairs | Band UK

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

302 ms

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About Website

Welcome to band.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Band best content right away, or after learning these important things about band.co.uk

Banqueting and Wedding chairs from Band International Band International supplies wedding and banqueting chairs for functions and events worldwide. Band has been established since 1982 and since that...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Band.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec 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

band.co.uk performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value35.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value960 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.334

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.band.co.uk

2011 ms

catablog.css

221 ms

sr7.css

234 ms

397df452483817cddf8f4c92fbcda7c7.min.css

549 ms

jquery.min.js

319 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Band.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 3% (1 request) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Band.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 224.3 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Band.co.uk main page is 1.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 999.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 106.5 kB

  • Original 130.0 kB
  • After minification 125.9 kB
  • After compression 23.5 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 106.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 845 B

  • Original 999.7 kB
  • After minification 998.8 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. Band images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 56.4 kB

  • Original 420.9 kB
  • After minification 420.9 kB
  • After compression 364.5 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 56.4 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 60.5 kB

  • Original 262.8 kB
  • After minification 262.8 kB
  • After compression 202.3 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. Band.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 60.5 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (41%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Band. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.band.co.uk

www.band.co.uk

2011 ms

catablog.css

catablog.css

221 ms

sr7.css

sr7.css

234 ms

397df452483817cddf8f4c92fbcda7c7.min.css

397df452483817cddf8f4c92fbcda7c7.min.css

549 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

319 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

239 ms

catablog.lightbox.js

catablog.lightbox.js

242 ms

tptools.js

tptools.js

369 ms

sr7.js

sr7.js

687 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

274 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

204 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

266 ms

index.js

index.js

284 ms

index.js

index.js

319 ms

7b85b7687ab3f52297be9cb91ecf10a4.min.js

7b85b7687ab3f52297be9cb91ecf10a4.min.js

558 ms

band-international-header-logo.png

band-international-header-logo.png

92 ms

band-international_second-sitting-1.jpg

band-international_second-sitting-1.jpg

94 ms

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-cheltenham.png

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-cheltenham.png

91 ms

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-camelot.png

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-camelot.png

161 ms

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-triomphe.png

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-triomphe.png

167 ms

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-curragh.png

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-curragh.png

94 ms

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-napoleon-diane.png

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-napoleon-diane.png

168 ms

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-derby.png

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-derby.png

173 ms

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-dubai.png

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-dubai.png

177 ms

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-calcutta.png

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-calcutta.png

173 ms

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-chantilly.png

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-chantilly.png

240 ms

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-cordelia.png

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-cordelia.png

251 ms

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-epsom.png

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-epsom.png

250 ms

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-valentine.png

band-international_wedding-and-banqueting-chair_thumb_the-valentine.png

253 ms

band-international_chair-features.png

band-international_chair-features.png

333 ms

band-international_second-sitting2.jpg

band-international_second-sitting2.jpg

259 ms

band-international_download-brochure-small.png

band-international_download-brochure-small.png

335 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

26 ms

awb-icons.woff

awb-icons.woff

303 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

385 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

309 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

4 ms

40 ms

Accessibility Review

band.co.uk accessibility score

92

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

band.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

band.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Band.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 Band.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

band.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Band. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: