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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

theplumbline.co.uk

The Plumbline - Bathroom, Plumbing and Heating Merchants UK

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

798 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theplumbline.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 798 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theplumbline.co.uk performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.theplumbline.co.uk

798 ms

css

47 ms

bf31c32041045b95d787487eb69e1d62-3-SSL-1711531407.css

322 ms

d3a481dbdcc305bbc1cf68324900e176-1703092128.js

567 ms

a253920ef27e9ea10622d1ec3afbdfa5-1632220327.js

408 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (102 requests) were addressed to the original Theplumbline.co.uk, 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Theplumbline.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (10%)

Content Size

19.5 MB

After Optimization

17.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theplumbline.co.uk main page is 19.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 19.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 60.6 kB

  • Original 73.1 kB
  • After minification 54.1 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 19.0 kB, which is 26% 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 60.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 19.1 MB
  • After minification 17.3 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 Plumbline images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 257 B

  • Original 202.5 kB
  • After minification 202.5 kB
  • After compression 202.2 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 60.8 kB
  • After minification 60.8 kB
  • After compression 59.6 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. Theplumbline.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (9%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

95

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Plumbline. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.theplumbline.co.uk

www.theplumbline.co.uk

798 ms

css

css

47 ms

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bf31c32041045b95d787487eb69e1d62-3-SSL-1711531407.css

322 ms

d3a481dbdcc305bbc1cf68324900e176-1703092128.js

d3a481dbdcc305bbc1cf68324900e176-1703092128.js

567 ms

a253920ef27e9ea10622d1ec3afbdfa5-1632220327.js

a253920ef27e9ea10622d1ec3afbdfa5-1632220327.js

408 ms

css

css

63 ms

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9a11b6f92095e92755c59504d11c840c-3-SSL-1710251589.css

411 ms

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319 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

45 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

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60 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

127 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

153 ms

plumbline-logo.png

plumbline-logo.png

196 ms

icon_sprite.png

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177 ms

close-icon.png

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176 ms

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593 ms

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465 ms

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599 ms

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388 ms

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578 ms

Plumbline_BATHS.jpg

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520 ms

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550 ms

Burlington_Sink_-_The_Plumbline1.jpg

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706 ms

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684 ms

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Fitted_Furniture_Prism_Charcoal.jpg

704 ms

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977 ms

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748 ms

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910 ms

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850 ms

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860 ms

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903 ms

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1270 ms

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1187 ms

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1157 ms

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1130 ms

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1554 ms

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1640 ms

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1551 ms

Aqualisa.jpg

Aqualisa.jpg

1584 ms

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1599 ms

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1663 ms

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font

61 ms

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16 ms

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1554 ms

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1375 ms

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1339 ms

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1099 ms

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959 ms

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952 ms

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984 ms

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968 ms

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981 ms

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955 ms

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945 ms

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947 ms

Tissino_Logo.jpg

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953 ms

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MM_Logo.png

933 ms

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925 ms

Accessibility Review

theplumbline.co.uk accessibility score

79

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

theplumbline.co.uk best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

theplumbline.co.uk SEO score

83

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

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 Theplumbline.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 Theplumbline.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

theplumbline.co.uk

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