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Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

gowans.co.uk

Clothing, bedding, floor coverings, curtains and home furnishings

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

252 ms

Resources Loaded

903 ms

Page Rendered

70 ms

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About Website

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

Buy from a range of ladies, gents and children`s clothing. Also home furnishings including beds and bedding, carpets, rugs and more. Buy direct from Gowans of Castle Douglas

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gowans.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 252 ms and then it took 973 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gowans.co.uk performance score

0

Network Requests Diagram

gowans.co.uk

252 ms

gowans.stewartry.co.uk

303 ms

gowans.css

109 ms

cssmenu.js

216 ms

header5.jpg

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gowans.co.uk, 83% (5 requests) were made to Gowans.stewartry.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (303 ms) relates to the external source Gowans.stewartry.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

20.6 kB

After Optimization

19.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gowans.co.uk main page is 20.6 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 18.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 583 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 509 B

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 583 B or 53% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 18.1 kB
  • After minification 18.1 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. Gowans images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 178 B

  • Original 389 B
  • After minification 359 B
  • After compression 211 B

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 178 B or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 409 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 652 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. Gowans.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 409 B or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gowans. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

gowans.co.uk

gowans.co.uk

252 ms

gowans.stewartry.co.uk

gowans.stewartry.co.uk

303 ms

gowans.css

gowans.css

109 ms

cssmenu.js

cssmenu.js

216 ms

header5.jpg

header5.jpg

131 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

115 ms

Accessibility Review

gowans.co.uk accessibility score

67

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

gowans.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

SEO Factors

gowans.co.uk SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gowans.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Gowans.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

gowans.co.uk

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