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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

plates4cars.co.uk

Plates For Cars - Europe's Leading Number Plate Supplier

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

251 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

592 ms

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About Website

Visit plates4cars.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Plates 4 Cars content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about plates4cars.co.uk

Europe's Leading Number Plate Supplier. Offering the best quality number plates on the market at the most competitive prices with a state of the art website and service.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plates4cars.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 251 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

plates4cars.co.uk performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,390 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.348

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

plates4cars.co.uk

251 ms

www.platesforcars.co.uk

515 ms

stylesheet.css

82 ms

getclicky.js

164 ms

trustedshops.js

245 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Plates4cars.co.uk, 50% (24 requests) were made to Platesforcars.co.uk and 10% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Platesforcars.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 128.5 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Plates4cars.co.uk main page is 2.1 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. 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 12.0 kB
  • After minification 11.4 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 8.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 111.8 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Plates 4 Cars images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 207.5 kB
  • After minification 206.0 kB
  • After compression 202.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 63.8 kB
  • After minification 63.0 kB
  • After compression 60.7 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. Plates4cars.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (37%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Plates 4 Cars. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

plates4cars.co.uk

plates4cars.co.uk

251 ms

www.platesforcars.co.uk

www.platesforcars.co.uk

515 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

82 ms

getclicky.js

getclicky.js

164 ms

trustedshops.js

trustedshops.js

245 ms

include_pages.js

include_pages.js

407 ms

google_sitetag.js

google_sitetag.js

406 ms

js

js

61 ms

v2

v2

32 ms

script.js

script.js

38 ms

mobile_detect.js

mobile_detect.js

569 ms

js

js

37 ms

XF3DF55F21F1CFE97363B0A8E8F590C27.js

XF3DF55F21F1CFE97363B0A8E8F590C27.js

67 ms

in.php

in.php

208 ms

log

log

688 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

2293 ms

background_2.jpg

background_2.jpg

823 ms

mobile_request.png

mobile_request.png

153 ms

top2020.jpg

top2020.jpg

824 ms

aboutus_reviews_smaller.jpg

aboutus_reviews_smaller.jpg

592 ms

motorway_testimonial.jpg

motorway_testimonial.jpg

821 ms

standard_acrylic_small.jpg

standard_acrylic_small.jpg

591 ms

black_gel_resin_small.jpg

black_gel_resin_small.jpg

824 ms

carbon_gel_resin_small.jpg

carbon_gel_resin_small.jpg

655 ms

laser_4d_small.jpg

laser_4d_small.jpg

823 ms

standard_metal_small.jpg

standard_metal_small.jpg

842 ms

vintage_metal_small.jpg

vintage_metal_small.jpg

824 ms

numberplate_warning.jpg

numberplate_warning.jpg

932 ms

linkmenu.html

linkmenu.html

791 ms

cO1fDmMS8Rs

cO1fDmMS8Rs

163 ms

mid.png

mid.png

783 ms

60 ms

65 ms

38 ms

28 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

13 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

36 ms

base.js

base.js

64 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

213 ms

XRk6eFbYaDme_I9SSIFgFZ9I1nSvAmlSIHv6h58Lfu0.js

XRk6eFbYaDme_I9SSIFgFZ9I1nSvAmlSIHv6h58Lfu0.js

132 ms

embed.js

embed.js

66 ms

id

id

60 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

168 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc-.woff

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc-.woff

168 ms

Create

Create

158 ms

footer.html

footer.html

97 ms

footer_logos.jpg

footer_logos.jpg

84 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

14 ms

Accessibility Review

plates4cars.co.uk accessibility score

63

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

plates4cars.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

plates4cars.co.uk SEO score

62

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

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

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 Plates4cars.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 Plates4cars.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

plates4cars.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Plates 4 Cars. 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: