Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

elitesaddles.co.uk

Saddles Direct | The Saddle People

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

223 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

elitesaddles.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Elite Saddles content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about elitesaddles.co.uk

Saddles Direct established 2006 is the UK's largest distributor of new and used saddles in the UK. We offer a free trial service on our range of saddles.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Elitesaddles.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 223 ms and then it took 3.7 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

elitesaddles.co.uk performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,990 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.5 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

elitesaddles.co.uk

223 ms

saddlesdirect.co.uk

782 ms

theme.css

42 ms

preloads.js

110 ms

load_feature-9f951eb7d8d53973c719de211f807d63af81c644e5b9a6ae72661ac408d472f6.js

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Elitesaddles.co.uk, 83% (91 requests) were made to Saddlesdirect.co.uk and 2% (2 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (782 ms) relates to the external source Saddlesdirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 634.0 kB (26%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Elitesaddles.co.uk main page is 2.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 587.8 kB

  • Original 655.4 kB
  • After minification 586.2 kB
  • After compression 67.6 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 69.2 kB, which is 11% 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 587.8 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Elite Saddles images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 37.1 kB

  • Original 428.6 kB
  • After minification 418.0 kB
  • After compression 391.4 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 131 B

  • Original 63.5 kB
  • After minification 63.5 kB
  • After compression 63.4 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. Elitesaddles.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (19%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

86

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Elite Saddles. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

elitesaddles.co.uk accessibility score

97

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

Best Practices

elitesaddles.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

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