Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

charltonstimberstore.co.uk

Charltons Timberstore – Timber merchant based in the heart of Somerset.

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

414 ms

charltonstimberstore.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit charltonstimberstore.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Charltons Timberstore content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about charltonstimberstore.co.uk

Looking for quality timber products & bespoke joinery in Frome, Somerset? Call the timber merchants, Charltons Timber Store on 01373 481 410

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Key Findings

We analyzed Charltonstimberstore.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

charltonstimberstore.co.uk performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,810 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.101

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

charltonstimberstore.co.uk

2527 ms

normalize-3.0.1.min.css

84 ms

template-v2.min.css

86 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

7 ms

template-v2.min.js

109 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Charltonstimberstore.co.uk, 29% (19 requests) were made to Static01.cdn.ybsitecenter.com and 12% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Charltonstimberstore.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 870.8 kB (23%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Charltonstimberstore.co.uk main page is 3.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 62.0 kB

  • Original 86.2 kB
  • After minification 81.8 kB
  • After compression 24.2 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 62.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 89.6 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Charltons Timberstore images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 685.0 kB

  • Original 942.7 kB
  • After minification 751.9 kB
  • After compression 257.7 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 685.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 34.3 kB

  • Original 42.8 kB
  • After minification 38.9 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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. Charltonstimberstore.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (48%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Charltons Timberstore. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

charltonstimberstore.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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

charltonstimberstore.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

SEO Factors

charltonstimberstore.co.uk SEO score

93

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Charltonstimberstore.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Charltonstimberstore.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 description is not detected on the main page of Charltons Timberstore. 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: