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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

solarplusuk.com

Solar Plus | Solar panel systems for free hot water or electricity

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

439 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

166 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Solarplusuk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 439 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

solarplusuk.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.078

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

solarplusuk.com

439 ms

style.css

239 ms

home.css

160 ms

jquery-1.4.2.js

478 ms

addthis_widget.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Solarplusuk.com, 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 (940 ms) belongs to the original domain Solarplusuk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 813.3 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

829.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Solarplusuk.com main page is 1.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 885.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 50.6 kB

  • Original 71.5 kB
  • After minification 70.3 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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 50.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 284.3 kB

  • Original 885.8 kB
  • After minification 601.5 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. Obviously, Solar Plus Uk needs image optimization as it can save up to 284.3 kB or 32% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 442.9 kB

  • Original 643.4 kB
  • After minification 566.0 kB
  • After compression 200.5 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 442.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 35.6 kB

  • Original 42.5 kB
  • After minification 35.2 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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. Solarplusuk.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (23%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solar Plus Uk. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

solarplusuk.com

solarplusuk.com

439 ms

style.css

style.css

239 ms

home.css

home.css

160 ms

jquery-1.4.2.js

jquery-1.4.2.js

478 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

9 ms

jquery-cycle-all.js

jquery-cycle-all.js

250 ms

logo.png

logo.png

144 ms

solarplus-visitsps.jpg

solarplus-visitsps.jpg

196 ms

solarplus-getaquote.jpg

solarplus-getaquote.jpg

144 ms

grad_hgrey.jpg

grad_hgrey.jpg

206 ms

nav_off.gif

nav_off.gif

172 ms

nav_on.gif

nav_on.gif

173 ms

divide_hgrey.jpg

divide_hgrey.jpg

288 ms

37_slide1.jpg

37_slide1.jpg

304 ms

37_slide2.jpg

37_slide2.jpg

477 ms

37_slide3.jpg

37_slide3.jpg

523 ms

37_slide4.jpg

37_slide4.jpg

439 ms

future_green.jpg

future_green.jpg

367 ms

grad_green.jpg

grad_green.jpg

450 ms

grad_orange.jpg

grad_orange.jpg

399 ms

electricity_plus.gif

electricity_plus.gif

514 ms

Small_electric_frame.jpg

Small_electric_frame.jpg

520 ms

thermmal_plus.gif

thermmal_plus.gif

527 ms

Small_thermal_frame.jpg

Small_thermal_frame.jpg

611 ms

thermoimage.png

thermoimage.png

573 ms

bluegrad.png

bluegrad.png

622 ms

thermobutton.png

thermobutton.png

620 ms

sp_cpa_benefits.jpg

sp_cpa_benefits.jpg

632 ms

grad_grey.jpg

grad_grey.jpg

606 ms

divide_white.png

divide_white.png

706 ms

icon_income.gif

icon_income.gif

713 ms

benefit_piggy.jpg

benefit_piggy.jpg

804 ms

icon_hotwater.gif

icon_hotwater.gif

845 ms

benefit_tap.jpg

benefit_tap.jpg

847 ms

icon_roof.gif

icon_roof.gif

840 ms

benefit_roof.jpg

benefit_roof.jpg

784 ms

icon_tick.gif

icon_tick.gif

839 ms

benefit_solar.jpg

benefit_solar.jpg

881 ms

icon_1st.gif

icon_1st.gif

900 ms

benefit_guarantee.jpg

benefit_guarantee.jpg

940 ms

logo1.jpg

logo1.jpg

918 ms

logo2.jpg

logo2.jpg

861 ms

ga.js

ga.js

8 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

39 ms

counter.5524cceca805eb4b9b2b.js

counter.5524cceca805eb4b9b2b.js

26 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

31 ms

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

25 ms

recc_logo_small.jpg

recc_logo_small.jpg

815 ms

logo7.jpg

logo7.jpg

845 ms

shares.json

shares.json

13 ms

bullet_up.jpg

bullet_up.jpg

833 ms

bullet_down.jpg

bullet_down.jpg

847 ms

footer_bg_green.gif

footer_bg_green.gif

817 ms

Accessibility Review

solarplusuk.com accessibility score

89

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

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

solarplusuk.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

solarplusuk.com SEO score

92

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

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 Solarplusuk.com 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 Solarplusuk.com 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

solarplusuk.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Solar Plus Uk. 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: