Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

ultimatehandyman.co.uk

DIY, diy help, hints and tips from Ultimate Handyman

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

278 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

128 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ultimatehandyman.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 278 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ultimatehandyman.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,630 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ultimatehandyman.co.uk

278 ms

ultimatehandyman.co.uk

371 ms

www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk

349 ms

index.htm

176 ms

adsbygoogle.js

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Ultimatehandyman.co.uk, 16% (8 requests) were made to Google.com and 12% (6 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (760 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 330.4 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

950.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Ultimatehandyman.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 906.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 44.5 kB

  • Original 55.8 kB
  • After minification 55.2 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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. 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 44.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 76.0 kB
  • After minification 74.5 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. Ultimate Handyman images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 130.1 kB

  • Original 906.1 kB
  • After minification 906.1 kB
  • After compression 776.0 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 130.1 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 154.4 kB

  • Original 242.5 kB
  • After minification 213.0 kB
  • After compression 88.1 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. Ultimatehandyman.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 154.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (53%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ultimate Handyman. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ultimatehandyman.co.uk accessibility score

93

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

ultimatehandyman.co.uk best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ultimatehandyman.co.uk SEO score

85

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

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ultimatehandyman.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Ultimatehandyman.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 Ultimate Handyman. 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: