Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

smartwool.co.uk

Smartwool® | Europe Store | Merino Wool socks and clothing

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

310 ms

smartwool.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit smartwool.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Smartwool content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about smartwool.co.uk

Merino wool clothing and accessories for men and women by Smartwool. Comfortable, breathable, odor resistant. 100% Guarantee. Stay warm in cold conditions!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smartwool.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 104 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smartwool.co.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,980 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

104 ms

44780b8a6ddd0b8b91b2dc8b6e428359.min.css

189 ms

styles-l.min.css

172 ms

font-awesome.min.css

37 ms

logo.svg

575 ms

Our browser made a total of 305 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Smartwool.co.uk, 95% (290 requests) were made to Cdn2.smartwool.filoblu.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (575 ms) relates to the external source Cdn2.smartwool.filoblu.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 402.5 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Smartwool.co.uk main page is 1.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 724.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 259.2 kB

  • Original 291.9 kB
  • After minification 289.2 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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 259.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 724.6 kB
  • After minification 717.6 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. Smartwool images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

  • Original 639.2 kB
  • After minification 639.1 kB
  • After compression 619.6 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

-83%

Potential reduce by 116.7 kB

  • Original 141.3 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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. Smartwool.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 116.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 269 (90%)

Requests Now

300

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 300 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smartwool. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 267 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smartwool.co.uk accessibility score

58

Accessibility Issues

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

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

smartwool.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

smartwool.co.uk SEO score

84

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Smartwool.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 Smartwool.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 Smartwool. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: