Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

homebargains.co.uk

Home Bargains | Discount Toys, Home, Garden & more | Home Bargains

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

269 ms

homebargains.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homebargains.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Homebargains.co.uk rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

homebargains.co.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value30.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.805

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homebargains.co.uk

52 ms

www.homebargains.co.uk

1064 ms

prum.min.js

7 ms

jquery.min.js

30 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.18.custom.css

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Homebargains.co.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Homebargains.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 551.6 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

533.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Homebargains.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 370.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 107.6 kB

  • Original 128.1 kB
  • After minification 127.5 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 107.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 370.8 kB
  • After minification 356.4 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. Home Bargains images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 209.1 kB

  • Original 321.5 kB
  • After minification 321.2 kB
  • After compression 112.3 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 209.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 220.5 kB

  • Original 264.3 kB
  • After minification 260.6 kB
  • After compression 43.8 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. Homebargains.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 220.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (39%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Bargains. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

homebargains.co.uk accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

homebargains.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

homebargains.co.uk SEO score

91

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homebargains.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 Homebargains.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 Home Bargains. 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: