Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

thehut.co.uk

The Hut | Fashion, Beauty, Home & Garden, Gifts & Toys Online

Page Load Speed

15.8 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

7.9 sec

thehut.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Free UK & international delivery available across 500 luxury brands including fashion, beauty, home & garden, gifts, toys and more online at The Hut.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehut.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 14.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thehut.co.uk performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thehut.com

1737 ms

screen_primary-a43be9dd8f.css

159 ms

base-af0207612e.css

179 ms

product_block-20dea3d3ad.css

302 ms

legacy_component-26150f5747.css

275 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Thehut.co.uk, 1% (1 request) were made to Thehut.com and 1% (1 request) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Thehut.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (35%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Thehut.co.uk main page is 3.2 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. 80% 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 814.5 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 842.8 kB
  • After compression 190.9 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 162.7 kB, which is 16% 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 814.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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 Hut images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 44 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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

-53%

Potential reduce by 280.3 kB

  • Original 530.5 kB
  • After minification 530.1 kB
  • After compression 250.1 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. Thehut.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 280.3 kB or 53% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (14%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

70

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Hut. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thehut.co.uk accessibility score

94

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

thehut.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

thehut.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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 Thehut.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 Thehut.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 description is not detected on the main page of The Hut. 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: