Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

redbows.co.uk

Advertising Gifts | Promotional Gifts | Promotional Products | Giveaways | Products

Page Load Speed

18.3 sec in total

First Response

213 ms

Resources Loaded

17.6 sec

Page Rendered

483 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Redbows.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 213 ms and then it took 18.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

redbows.co.uk performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

54/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

redbows.co.uk

213 ms

www.redbows.co.uk

379 ms

ga.js

73 ms

reset,bootstrap.min,redbows,bootstrap-responsive.min,jquery.fancybox,jetzoom,jScrollPane2.css

1868 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min,jquery-ui-1.10.3.min,bootstrap,jquery.fancybox,jquery.fancybox.pack,sor_carousel,jquery.scrollTo-min,jsizes,jetzoom,ellipsis-1.0.0,application,sor-rotator-1.0.0,jScrollPane,jMouseWheel,blog,reviews-co-uk-2015-01-30.12.01.19-210.js

1104 ms

Our browser made a total of 272 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Redbows.co.uk, 95% (259 requests) were made to Assets-cf.redbows.co.uk and 1% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) relates to the external source Assets-cf.redbows.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 801.1 kB (25%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Redbows.co.uk main page is 3.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 157.6 kB

  • Original 176.8 kB
  • After minification 128.4 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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 48.4 kB, which is 27% 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 157.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 38.7 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Redbows images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 299.5 kB

  • Original 430.8 kB
  • After minification 360.4 kB
  • After compression 131.3 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 299.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 305.2 kB

  • Original 356.3 kB
  • After minification 314.5 kB
  • After compression 51.0 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. Redbows.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 305.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (9%)

Requests Now

266

After Optimization

243

The browser has sent 266 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Redbows. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

redbows.co.uk accessibility score

93

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

redbows.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

SEO Factors

redbows.co.uk SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    UTF-8

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