Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

rainguard.co.uk

Rainwater Drainage Guttering Systems - Yeoman Rainguard

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

255 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

203 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rainguard.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 255 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rainguard.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,310 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rainguard.co.uk

255 ms

www.rainguard.co.uk

738 ms

featuredcontentglider.css

160 ms

system.base.css

161 ms

system.menus.css

164 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Rainguard.co.uk, 4% (3 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Rainguard.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 169.4 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Rainguard.co.uk main page is 1.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 33.6 kB
  • After minification 32.2 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 25.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 21.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Rainguard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 69.4 kB

  • Original 110.1 kB
  • After minification 81.8 kB
  • After compression 40.7 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 69.4 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 53.1 kB

  • Original 66.4 kB
  • After minification 51.8 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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. Rainguard.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 53.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (57%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rainguard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rainguard.co.uk 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

rainguard.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

rainguard.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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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