Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

herons.co.uk

Bonsai Trees | Herons Bonsai Trees Online - Indoor Bonsai and Outdoor Bonsai - UK Next Day Delivery

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

620 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

521 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Herons.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 620 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

herons.co.uk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.418

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.herons.co.uk

620 ms

PageHeaderStyles.css

170 ms

2Column.css

417 ms

default.css

172 ms

css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Herons.co.uk, 8% (10 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 7% (8 requests) were made to Maps.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Herons.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (39%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Herons.co.uk main page is 3.8 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 91.7 kB

  • Original 116.0 kB
  • After minification 111.7 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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 91.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 333.0 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Obviously, Herons needs image optimization as it can save up to 333.0 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 921.1 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 432.8 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 921.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 133.9 kB

  • Original 154.3 kB
  • After minification 116.6 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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. Herons.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 133.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (34%)

Requests Now

111

After Optimization

73

The browser has sent 111 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Herons. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

herons.co.uk accessibility score

64

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

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

herons.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

herons.co.uk SEO score

83

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Herons.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Herons.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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