Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

themetrocentre.co.uk

Metrocentre: Shopping Centre, Newcastle | Metrocentre

Page Load Speed

18.5 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

17.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Themetrocentre.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 18.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

themetrocentre.co.uk performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,500 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.449

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

themetrocentre.co.uk

169 ms

themetrocentre.co.uk

502 ms

hlm6gzt.css

127 ms

dc.css

270 ms

uc.js

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 195 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Themetrocentre.co.uk, 81% (158 requests) were made to Metro-centre.transforms.svdcdn.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (15.5 sec) relates to the external source Metro-centre.transforms.svdcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 728.7 kB (25%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Themetrocentre.co.uk main page is 3.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 257.3 kB

  • Original 310.5 kB
  • After minification 310.5 kB
  • After compression 53.2 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 257.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 376.0 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Obviously, The Metrocentre needs image optimization as it can save up to 376.0 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 95.4 kB

  • Original 161.8 kB
  • After minification 161.8 kB
  • After compression 66.4 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 95.4 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 54.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (15%)

Requests Now

190

After Optimization

161

The browser has sent 190 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Metrocentre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

themetrocentre.co.uk accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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.

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

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

themetrocentre.co.uk best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

themetrocentre.co.uk SEO score

91

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Themetrocentre.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 Themetrocentre.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 Metrocentre. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: