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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

gardenstone.co.uk

Gardenstone | Garden Paving, Decorative Edging, Stepping Stones & Patio Circles

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

544 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

516 ms

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About Website

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

Quality natural stone garden paving, concrete paving, porcelain paving, edging, stepping stones and patio circles from a family business.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gardenstone.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 544 ms and then it took 3.6 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

gardenstone.co.uk performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gardenstone.co.uk

544 ms

styles.css

430 ms

swiper.min.css

302 ms

wallets.css

29 ms

se.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Gardenstone.co.uk, 6% (3 requests) were made to Static.klaviyo.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Gardenstone.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 179.1 kB (5%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gardenstone.co.uk main page is 3.7 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 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 67.4 kB

  • Original 84.1 kB
  • After minification 75.5 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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. 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 67.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 109.5 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Gardenstone images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 75 B

  • Original 46.2 kB
  • After minification 46.2 kB
  • After compression 46.1 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

-77%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 2.7 kB
  • After minification 713 B
  • After compression 633 B

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. Gardenstone.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (24%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gardenstone. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.gardenstone.co.uk

www.gardenstone.co.uk

544 ms

styles.css

styles.css

430 ms

swiper.min.css

swiper.min.css

302 ms

wallets.css

wallets.css

29 ms

se.css

se.css

29 ms

css2

css2

41 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

27 ms

js

js

62 ms

klaviyo.js

klaviyo.js

37 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

255 ms

icon-account.svg

icon-account.svg

78 ms

icon-basket.svg

icon-basket.svg

264 ms

ban-menu-Yorkstone-Paving.jpg

ban-menu-Yorkstone-Paving.jpg

80 ms

ban-menu-Dove-Grey-Limestone-Paving.jpg

ban-menu-Dove-Grey-Limestone-Paving.jpg

431 ms

icon-usp-delivery.svg

icon-usp-delivery.svg

298 ms

icon-area-calc.svg

icon-area-calc.svg

80 ms

ban-menu-Handy-Bag.jpg

ban-menu-Handy-Bag.jpg

81 ms

ban-menu-Bulk-Bag.jpg

ban-menu-Bulk-Bag.jpg

83 ms

ban-menu-garden-walling.jpg

ban-menu-garden-walling.jpg

82 ms

ban-menu-wall-coping.jpg

ban-menu-wall-coping.jpg

83 ms

GS_Web_Header_2023_Porcelain_June_Desktop.jpg

GS_Web_Header_2023_Porcelain_June_Desktop.jpg

694 ms

GS_Web_Header_2023_Porcelain_June_Mobile.jpg

GS_Web_Header_2023_Porcelain_June_Mobile.jpg

83 ms

mydesign-logo.svg

mydesign-logo.svg

84 ms

icon-steps-1.svg

icon-steps-1.svg

321 ms

icon-steps-2.svg

icon-steps-2.svg

519 ms

icon-steps-3.svg

icon-steps-3.svg

529 ms

Border_Edging_-_Pale_Cotswold_-1_copy.jpg

Border_Edging_-_Pale_Cotswold_-1_copy.jpg

1064 ms

Japanese_3000000082_4.jpg

Japanese_3000000082_4.jpg

329 ms

old-mill-flagstones-5_2_1.jpg

old-mill-flagstones-5_2_1.jpg

339 ms

john-salzarulo-wtjrpjZABcQ-unsplash.jpg

john-salzarulo-wtjrpjZABcQ-unsplash.jpg

347 ms

Gardenstone_Accessories_1.png

Gardenstone_Accessories_1.png

358 ms

gs-home-about.png

gs-home-about.png

369 ms

img-cards.svg

img-cards.svg

377 ms

footer-landscape.svg

footer-landscape.svg

310 ms

footer-warehouse.svg

footer-warehouse.svg

352 ms

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l7gAbjR61M69yt8Z8w6FZf9WoBxdBrFbvm6O.ttf

258 ms

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l7gAbjR61M69yt8Z8w6FZf9WoBxdBrEFvm6O.ttf

270 ms

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l7gAbjR61M69yt8Z8w6FZf9WoBxdBrG3uW6O.ttf

271 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

1643 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

933 ms

fa-light-300.ttf

fa-light-300.ttf

1050 ms

fa-thin-100.ttf

fa-thin-100.ttf

1042 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

fa-brands-400.ttf

1050 ms

fender_analytics.8b21fd7cc915ea15c535.js

fender_analytics.8b21fd7cc915ea15c535.js

34 ms

static.047f24ade89e4aff54a9.js

static.047f24ade89e4aff54a9.js

34 ms

runtime.7d53bcb31ee7ad2422be.js

runtime.7d53bcb31ee7ad2422be.js

18 ms

sharedUtils.dd5b9aaeade0ef8bcc99.js

sharedUtils.dd5b9aaeade0ef8bcc99.js

26 ms

Accessibility Review

gardenstone.co.uk accessibility score

56

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

gardenstone.co.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

gardenstone.co.uk SEO score

85

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

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

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 Gardenstone.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 Gardenstone.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

gardenstone.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gardenstone. 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: