Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

kingcole.co.uk

Leading Knitting Wool Wholesale Supplier, Knitting Patterns - King Cole

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

245 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

325 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kingcole.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 245 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kingcole.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,010 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.149

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kingcole.co.uk

245 ms

www.kingcole.com

298 ms

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158 ms

css

63 ms

jquery.min.js

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Kingcole.co.uk, 48% (19 requests) were made to Kingcole.com and 13% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (496 ms) relates to the external source Kingcole.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 285.5 kB (31%)

Content Size

912.7 kB

After Optimization

627.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Kingcole.co.uk main page is 912.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 515.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 26.8 kB
  • After minification 26.8 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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. 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 19.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 515.4 kB
  • After minification 508.2 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. King Cole images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 103.8 kB

  • Original 187.6 kB
  • After minification 187.4 kB
  • After compression 83.8 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 103.8 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 154.7 kB

  • Original 182.9 kB
  • After minification 182.2 kB
  • After compression 28.1 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. Kingcole.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 154.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (47%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of King Cole. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kingcole.co.uk accessibility score

86

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

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

kingcole.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

kingcole.co.uk SEO score

81

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 doesn't use 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 Kingcole.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 Kingcole.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 data is detected on the main page of King Cole. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: