Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

buildworld.co.uk

Buildworld - Builders Merchant - Building Material Supplier

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

134 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

3.5 sec

buildworld.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Buildworld content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about buildworld.co.uk

Buildworld.co.uk offers top of the range Building Materials. At our online store, you can shop for Construction Products, Tools, Timber & Roof Materials.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buildworld.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 134 ms and then it took 5 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

buildworld.co.uk performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.415

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buildworld.co.uk

134 ms

www.buildworld.co.uk

334 ms

foundation.css

104 ms

header-buildworld-2020.css

31 ms

menu.css

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Buildworld.co.uk, 32% (25 requests) were made to Brand.buildworld.co.uk and 14% (11 requests) were made to Files.buildworld.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (471 ms) belongs to the original domain Buildworld.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Buildworld.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 128.4 kB

  • Original 149.4 kB
  • After minification 149.4 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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 128.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 480 B

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Buildworld images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 667 B

  • Original 96.3 kB
  • After minification 96.2 kB
  • After compression 95.6 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 43.3 kB
  • After minification 43.3 kB
  • After compression 40.7 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. Buildworld.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (28%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

55

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Buildworld. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

buildworld.co.uk accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

buildworld.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

buildworld.co.uk SEO score

91

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 Buildworld.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 Buildworld.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 Buildworld. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: