Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

rodstation.co.uk

Rodstation - Chimney Sweeps Brushes Rods & Accessories

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

483 ms

rodstation.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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UK’s leading suppliers of chimney sweeping equipment including chimney rods, brushes and rotary power sweeping equipment.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rodstation.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rodstation.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,490 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.rodstation.co.uk

1844 ms

gtm.js

56 ms

plugin.css

89 ms

wwp-css-script.css

173 ms

jquery.dataTables.min.css

240 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Rodstation.co.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Rodstation.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 254.8 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

883.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Rodstation.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 534.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 141.0 kB

  • Original 176.3 kB
  • After minification 135.0 kB
  • After compression 35.3 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 41.3 kB, which is 23% 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 141.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 534.7 kB
  • After minification 514.8 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. Rodstation images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 84.5 kB

  • Original 348.6 kB
  • After minification 348.6 kB
  • After compression 264.1 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 84.5 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 78.5 kB
  • After minification 77.1 kB
  • After compression 69.1 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. Rodstation.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.4 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (60%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rodstation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rodstation.co.uk accessibility score

88

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

rodstation.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

rodstation.co.uk SEO score

98

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rodstation.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 Rodstation.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 data is detected on the main page of Rodstation. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: