Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

gillies.co.uk

Gillies | Home Furniture - Living, Dining, Bedroom, Flooring | Gillies

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

254 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

gillies.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Gillies home furniture store. Offering a wide range of upholstery, living, dining and bedroom furniture, carpets, flooring, bedding and home accessories. Located in Perth, Dundee (Broughty Ferry), Abe...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gillies.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 254 ms and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gillies.co.uk performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,810 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.267

46/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gillies.co.uk

254 ms

www.gillies.co.uk

475 ms

82b629cf621e0c9f10904ebed4ea0d05.css

316 ms

styles-l.css

359 ms

require.js

358 ms

Our browser made a total of 192 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (167 requests) were addressed to the original Gillies.co.uk, 2% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Widget.trustpilot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Gillies.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 794.3 kB (16%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Gillies.co.uk main page is 5.0 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. 85% 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 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 275.2 kB

  • Original 305.4 kB
  • After minification 225.3 kB
  • After compression 30.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 80.1 kB, which is 26% 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 275.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 232.9 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Gillies images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 138.1 kB

  • Original 383.0 kB
  • After minification 378.9 kB
  • After compression 245.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 138.1 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 148.2 kB

  • Original 176.0 kB
  • After minification 27.9 kB
  • After compression 27.8 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. Gillies.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 148.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 129 (70%)

Requests Now

183

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 183 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gillies. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 120 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gillies.co.uk accessibility score

81

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

gillies.co.uk best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gillies.co.uk SEO score

91

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

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 Gillies.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 Gillies.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 Gillies. 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: