Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

beecroft-science.co.uk

Beecroft & Partners Ltd - Educational Science Apparatus - Chemicals - Laboratory Equipment - Fisher Products

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

113 ms

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About Website

Welcome to beecroft-science.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Beecroft Science best content right away, or after learning these important things about beecroft-science.co.uk

Beecroft & Partners supply chemicals and laboratory equipment to schools and industry. We are also a Fisher distribitor

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Key Findings

We analyzed Beecroft-science.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

beecroft-science.co.uk performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

73/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.086

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

beecroft-science.co.uk

1122 ms

style.css

341 ms

admin.css

344 ms

jquery.js

423 ms

s3Slider.js

333 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Beecroft-science.co.uk, 33% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Beecroft-science.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 30.2 kB (14%)

Content Size

213.6 kB

After Optimization

183.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Beecroft-science.co.uk main page is 213.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 146.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 22.6 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 16.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 146.1 kB
  • After minification 139.8 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. Beecroft Science images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 39.9 kB
  • After minification 39.9 kB
  • After compression 34.4 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 5.5 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 5.0 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. Beecroft-science.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.9 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (68%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Beecroft Science. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

beecroft-science.co.uk accessibility score

51

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.

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

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

Best Practices

beecroft-science.co.uk best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

beecroft-science.co.uk SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Beecroft-science.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 Beecroft-science.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Beecroft Science. 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: