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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 0

    Accessibility

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 0

    SEO

theworks.co.uk

The Works | Get Huge Savings On Arts, Crafts And Books

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

272 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

248 ms

theworks.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing The Works content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about theworks.co.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theworks.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 272 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theworks.co.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20,610 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theworks.co.uk

272 ms

www.theworks.co.uk

491 ms

theworks.js

23 ms

Bootstrap.js

48 ms

custom.css

358 ms

Our browser made a total of 159 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (86 requests) were addressed to the original Theworks.co.uk, 2% (3 requests) were made to Media.fastclick.net and 2% (3 requests) were made to 01.creativecdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Theworks.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (34%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theworks.co.uk main page is 4.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 157.6 kB

  • Original 181.6 kB
  • After minification 138.2 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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 43.4 kB, which is 24% 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 157.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 2.1 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. The Works images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 814.0 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 405.4 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 814.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 355.7 kB

  • Original 434.4 kB
  • After minification 433.0 kB
  • After compression 78.7 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. Theworks.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 355.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 86 (59%)

Requests Now

146

After Optimization

60

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 146 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Works. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 56 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theworks.co.uk

theworks.co.uk

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491 ms

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Best Practices

theworks.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

theworks.co.uk SEO score

0

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 Theworks.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 Theworks.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

theworks.co.uk

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