Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

rope-source.co.uk

Quality Ropes and Twines | Rope Source UK

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

357 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

492 ms

rope-source.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit rope-source.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Rope Source content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about rope-source.co.uk

Rope Source are one of the UK’s leading suppliers of ropes, twines and cords in the UK.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rope-source.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 357 ms and then it took 4 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

rope-source.co.uk performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.116

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rope-source.co.uk

357 ms

www.rope-source.co.uk

1091 ms

style.css

185 ms

addthis_widget.js

9 ms

bg.jpg

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Rope-source.co.uk, 6% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Rope-source.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 510.5 kB (33%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Rope-source.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 821.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 174.3 kB

  • Original 218.6 kB
  • After minification 215.6 kB
  • After compression 44.4 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 174.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 821.7 kB
  • After minification 807.8 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. Rope Source images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 317.8 kB

  • Original 502.8 kB
  • After minification 501.1 kB
  • After compression 185.1 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 317.8 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 5.8 kB
  • After minification 4.9 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Rope-source.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (35%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rope Source. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rope-source.co.uk accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

rope-source.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

rope-source.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rope-source.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 Rope-source.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Rope Source. 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: