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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

leevalley.com

Home - Lee Valley Tools

Page Load Speed

649 ms in total

First Response

110 ms

Resources Loaded

435 ms

Page Rendered

104 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Leevalley.com page load time and found that the first response time was 110 ms and then it took 539 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

leevalley.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,830 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

leevalley.com

110 ms

default.aspx

139 ms

styles.css

67 ms

LVVeritasLogo.gif

134 ms

woodworking.jpg

132 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Leevalley.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (139 ms) belongs to the original domain Leevalley.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.7 kB (26%)

Content Size

64.1 kB

After Optimization

47.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Leevalley.com main page is 64.1 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 51.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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 2.7 kB, which is 45% 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 4.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 51.9 kB
  • After minification 45.3 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. Obviously, Lee Valley needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.5 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 6.2 kB
  • After minification 4.4 kB
  • After compression 969 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. Leevalley.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lee Valley. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

leevalley.com

leevalley.com

110 ms

default.aspx

default.aspx

139 ms

styles.css

styles.css

67 ms

LVVeritasLogo.gif

LVVeritasLogo.gif

134 ms

woodworking.jpg

woodworking.jpg

132 ms

gardening.jpg

gardening.jpg

77 ms

hardware.jpg

hardware.jpg

76 ms

gifts.jpg

gifts.jpg

131 ms

btnEN.gif

btnEN.gif

114 ms

btnFR.gif

btnFR.gif

110 ms

btnUS.gif

btnUS.gif

113 ms

btnInt.gif

btnInt.gif

133 ms

Background.jpg

Background.jpg

132 ms

Accessibility Review

leevalley.com accessibility score

95

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

leevalley.com 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

leevalley.com 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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Leevalley.com 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 Leevalley.com 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

leevalley.com

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