Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

valsparpaint.co.uk

Valspar Paint | Any Paint Colour, No Compromise

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

255 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

889 ms

valsparpaint.co.uk screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Valsparpaint.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 255 ms and then it took 6.7 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

valsparpaint.co.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.278

44/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.valsparpaint.co.uk

255 ms

main.min.20150605132050.css

119 ms

fonts.css

380 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

57 ms

jquery.min.js

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 313 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (125 requests) were addressed to the original Valsparpaint.co.uk, 11% (34 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 8% (26 requests) were made to Src0.responsive.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Src.responsive.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (12%)

Content Size

8.9 MB

After Optimization

7.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Valsparpaint.co.uk main page is 8.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 7.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 173.6 kB

  • Original 194.1 kB
  • After minification 134.9 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 59.2 kB, which is 30% 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 173.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 276.3 kB

  • Original 7.5 MB
  • After minification 7.3 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. Valspar Paint images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 479.5 kB

  • Original 738.8 kB
  • After minification 735.2 kB
  • After compression 259.3 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 479.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 153.7 kB

  • Original 382.8 kB
  • After minification 381.8 kB
  • After compression 229.1 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. Valsparpaint.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 153.7 kB or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (31%)

Requests Now

192

After Optimization

133

The browser has sent 192 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Valspar Paint. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

valsparpaint.co.uk accessibility score

92

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

valsparpaint.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

valsparpaint.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Valsparpaint.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 Valsparpaint.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 Valspar Paint. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: