Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

crossling.co.uk

High quality, low price plumbing, bathroom, heating, pipeline and tools. | Crossling

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

126 ms

Resources Loaded

954 ms

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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

Crossling are the North of England's largest independent Plumbing & Pipeline Merchants, trading for over 165 years.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Crossling.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 126 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

crossling.co.uk performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.306

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

crossling.co.uk

126 ms

css2

38 ms

css2

57 ms

crossling-logo.webp

19 ms

embed

222 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Crossling.co.uk, 61% (14 requests) were made to Google.com and 17% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (735 ms) relates to the external source Google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 58.0 kB (39%)

Content Size

148.3 kB

After Optimization

90.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Crossling.co.uk main page is 148.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 85.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 57.1 kB

  • Original 62.8 kB
  • After minification 27.3 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 35.4 kB, which is 56% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 57.1 kB or 91% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 925 B

  • Original 85.5 kB
  • After minification 85.5 kB
  • After compression 84.6 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (14%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Crossling. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

crossling.co.uk accessibility score

68

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

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

crossling.co.uk best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

crossling.co.uk SEO score

87

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Crossling.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 Crossling.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 Crossling. 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: