Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% 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

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

expresschemist.co.uk

Online Pharmacy UK - Express Chemist

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

288 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

294 ms

expresschemist.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to expresschemist.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Express Chemist best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about expresschemist.co.uk

Express Chemist are an online pharmacy based in the UK. Express Chemist specialises in delivering pharmacy medicines and health products, offering an efficient and discreet service.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Expresschemist.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 288 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

expresschemist.co.uk performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

expresschemist.co.uk

288 ms

www.expresschemist.co.uk

260 ms

www.expresschemist.co.uk

462 ms

cssMainLayoutAll

432 ms

scriptsMainLayoutAll

442 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Expresschemist.co.uk, 8% (4 requests) were made to Bat.bing.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Widget.trustpilot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Expresschemist.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 236.2 kB (43%)

Content Size

543.6 kB

After Optimization

307.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Expresschemist.co.uk main page is 543.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 276.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 225.1 kB

  • Original 243.6 kB
  • After minification 116.0 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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 127.6 kB, which is 52% 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 225.1 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 276.8 kB
  • After minification 266.0 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. Express Chemist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 255 B

  • Original 23.3 kB
  • After minification 23.3 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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 9 (18%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Express Chemist. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

expresschemist.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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

expresschemist.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

expresschemist.co.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Expresschemist.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 Expresschemist.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 Express Chemist. 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: