Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

theherbalists.co.uk

The Herbalists | Health Food and Natural Remedies Store

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

568 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

782 ms

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About Website

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The Herbalists are a traditional herbal apothecary providing Western herbal medicine with a modern approach. Located in the Yorkshire area...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theherbalists.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 568 ms and then it took 5.9 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

theherbalists.co.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,210 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theherbalists.co.uk

568 ms

css

32 ms

font-awesome.min.css

270 ms

fullmain.min.css

359 ms

premium-addons.min.css

456 ms

Our browser made a total of 199 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (178 requests) were addressed to the original Theherbalists.co.uk, 7% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Theherbalists.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 346.7 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Theherbalists.co.uk main page is 1.4 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 331.9 kB

  • Original 384.2 kB
  • After minification 377.1 kB
  • After compression 52.3 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. 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 331.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14.7 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB

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. The Herbalists images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 39 B

  • Original 6.5 kB
  • After minification 6.5 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 137 (77%)

Requests Now

177

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 177 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Herbalists. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 71 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 68 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

theherbalists.co.uk accessibility score

83

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

theherbalists.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

theherbalists.co.uk SEO score

100

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theherbalists.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 Theherbalists.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 The Herbalists. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: