Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

rodstation.co.uk

Rodstation - Chimney Sweeps Brushes Rods & Accessories

Page Load Speed

13.2 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

10.4 sec

Page Rendered

612 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 2.2 sec and then it took 11 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rodstation.co.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.rodstation.co.uk

2188 ms

gtm.js

58 ms

plugin.css

100 ms

wwp-css-script.css

235 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

320 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Rodstation.co.uk, 7% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Rodstation.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 119.3 kB (13%)

Content Size

884.7 kB

After Optimization

765.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Rodstation.co.uk main page is 884.7 kB. 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 440.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 108.1 kB

  • Original 125.4 kB
  • After minification 87.7 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 37.7 kB, which is 30% 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 108.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 440.2 kB
  • After minification 434.2 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 255.3 kB
  • After minification 255.3 kB
  • After compression 252.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 63.8 kB
  • After minification 63.8 kB
  • After compression 61.5 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. Rodstation.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (55%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 58 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 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 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

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

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: