Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

lights2go.co.uk

Modern Lighting | Buy Lights Online | Lights 2 Go

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

240 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

239 ms

lights2go.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to lights2go.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Lights 2 Go best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about lights2go.co.uk

At Lights 2 Go we have a selection of modern lighting perfect for your home. Make sure you buy our modern lighting online for great competitive prices.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lights2go.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 240 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lights2go.co.uk performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lights2go.co.uk

240 ms

www.lights2go.co.uk

401 ms

site_font,layout,site_layout,hotspots,media_promo,colorbox,card_logos,home,site_home.css

1123 ms

jquery,common,jquery-cookie,jquery-bgiframe,bookmark,jquery-hotspots,jquery-hotspots-settings,jquery-hoverintent,jquery-slider,vs_slider,jplayer,jquery-carousel

1981 ms

tp.widget.sync.bootstrap.min.js

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Lights2go.co.uk, 26% (19 requests) were made to Images.lights2go.co.uk and 11% (8 requests) were made to Files.lights2go.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Files.lights2go.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 439.0 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

730.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Lights2go.co.uk main page is 1.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 572.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 40.3 kB

  • Original 51.5 kB
  • After minification 45.9 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.6 kB, which is 11% 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 40.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 35.8 kB

  • Original 572.5 kB
  • After minification 536.7 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. Lights 2 Go images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 340.5 kB

  • Original 517.7 kB
  • After minification 517.4 kB
  • After compression 177.2 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 340.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 27.9 kB
  • After minification 27.7 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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. Lights2go.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (37%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lights 2 Go. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lights2go.co.uk accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

lights2go.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

lights2go.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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 uses legible font sizes

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 Lights2go.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 Lights2go.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 Lights 2 Go. 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: