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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

specialdayscakes.co.uk

Special Days Cakes | Wedding and Celebration Cakes

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

750 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

248 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Special Days Cakes content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about specialdayscakes.co.uk

Leading wedding cake designer, modern, traditional and chocolate cakes available. We also supply belgian chocolate fountains and fondues. Available for rent and hire.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Specialdayscakes.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 750 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

specialdayscakes.co.uk performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.25

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

specialdayscakes.co.uk

750 ms

style_imagehover.css

491 ms

stylesheet.css

492 ms

stylesheet_css_buttons.css

492 ms

jscript_imagehover.js

501 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Specialdayscakes.co.uk, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Specialdays.bpweb.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (750 ms) belongs to the original domain Specialdayscakes.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 28.1 kB (5%)

Content Size

537.1 kB

After Optimization

509.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Specialdayscakes.co.uk main page is 537.1 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 497.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 10.7 kB
  • After minification 9.3 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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 1.3 kB, which is 12% 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 7.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 497.0 kB
  • After minification 495.6 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. Special Days Cakes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 12.9 kB
  • After minification 11.0 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 5.9 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 16.6 kB
  • After minification 11.1 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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. Specialdayscakes.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (18%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Special Days Cakes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

specialdayscakes.co.uk

specialdayscakes.co.uk

750 ms

style_imagehover.css

style_imagehover.css

491 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

492 ms

stylesheet_css_buttons.css

stylesheet_css_buttons.css

492 ms

jscript_imagehover.js

jscript_imagehover.js

501 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

9 ms

special-days-cakes-scotland.gif

special-days-cakes-scotland.gif

460 ms

121147887945409.1322.1550388170.png

121147887945409.1322.1550388170.png

523 ms

bg3.jpg

bg3.jpg

434 ms

nav.jpg

nav.jpg

175 ms

left.jpg

left.jpg

186 ms

btn.gif

btn.gif

186 ms

vcakesa.png

vcakesa.png

377 ms

IMG_8790.jpg

IMG_8790.jpg

718 ms

special-days-cakes-tel.jpg

special-days-cakes-tel.jpg

379 ms

footer.gif

footer.gif

328 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

4 ms

print_stylesheet.css

print_stylesheet.css

95 ms

Accessibility Review

specialdayscakes.co.uk accessibility score

71

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.

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

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

specialdayscakes.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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

specialdayscakes.co.uk SEO score

93

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Specialdayscakes.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 Specialdayscakes.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

specialdayscakes.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Special Days Cakes. 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: