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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

thelightingcentre.co.uk

Modern | Contemporary | Crystal Lighting By The Lighting Center

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

273 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

196 ms

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About Website

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

Welcome to The Lighting Centre, We take pride in offering an extensive selection of interior & exterior light fittings to cater to all your lighting needs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thelightingcentre.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 273 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thelightingcentre.co.uk performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,180 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.181

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.5 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thelightingcentre.co.uk

273 ms

www.thelightingcentre.co.uk

705 ms

stylesheet.css

167 ms

js-image-slider.css

163 ms

js-image-slider.js

245 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Thelightingcentre.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Js.cookiesdirective.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Js.cookiesdirective.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 287.5 kB (64%)

Content Size

448.4 kB

After Optimization

160.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thelightingcentre.co.uk main page is 448.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 343.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 35.3 kB

  • Original 41.6 kB
  • After minification 34.8 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.8 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 35.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 221.0 kB

  • Original 343.7 kB
  • After minification 122.7 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, The Lighting Centre needs image optimization as it can save up to 221.0 kB or 64% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 49.9 kB
  • After minification 48.2 kB
  • After compression 29.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 20.4 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 13.1 kB
  • After minification 9.3 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. Thelightingcentre.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (50%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Lighting Centre. 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 JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thelightingcentre.co.uk

thelightingcentre.co.uk

273 ms

www.thelightingcentre.co.uk

www.thelightingcentre.co.uk

705 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

167 ms

js-image-slider.css

js-image-slider.css

163 ms

js-image-slider.js

js-image-slider.js

245 ms

tooltip.css

tooltip.css

168 ms

tooltip.js

tooltip.js

171 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

317 ms

mBanner.js

mBanner.js

320 ms

1.5.js

1.5.js

1402 ms

PayPal_mark_50x34.gif

PayPal_mark_50x34.gif

106 ms

WEBSITE-LOGO.jpg

WEBSITE-LOGO.jpg

176 ms

upper_left.gif

upper_left.gif

180 ms

upper_right.gif

upper_right.gif

180 ms

pixel_trans.gif

pixel_trans.gif

179 ms

pointer_blue.gif

pointer_blue.gif

230 ms

lower_left.gif

lower_left.gif

232 ms

lower_right.gif

lower_right.gif

339 ms

pointer_blue_light.gif

pointer_blue_light.gif

339 ms

100Guarantee.jpg

100Guarantee.jpg

423 ms

Feedback.jpg

Feedback.jpg

591 ms

welcome.jpg

welcome.jpg

549 ms

button_quick_find.gif

button_quick_find.gif

394 ms

arrow_right.gif

arrow_right.gif

500 ms

oscthumb.php

oscthumb.php

534 ms

fbook.png

fbook.png

821 ms

twt.png

twt.png

933 ms

pin.png

pin.png

926 ms

amazon.png

amazon.png

1023 ms

SagePay.jpg

SagePay.jpg

719 ms

top.gif

top.gif

662 ms

left.gif

left.gif

800 ms

right.gif

right.gif

820 ms

bot.gif

bot.gif

895 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

966 ms

ga.js

ga.js

4 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

10 ms

Accessibility Review

thelightingcentre.co.uk accessibility score

85

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

thelightingcentre.co.uk best practices score

58

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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thelightingcentre.co.uk SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Thelightingcentre.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 Thelightingcentre.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

thelightingcentre.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Lighting Centre. 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: