Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

buildadrive.com

Build a Drive | Bespoke Driveways | Leeds & Yorkshire

Page Load Speed

8.9 sec in total

First Response

778 ms

Resources Loaded

7.7 sec

Page Rendered

378 ms

buildadrive.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to buildadrive.com homepage info - get ready to check Build A Drive best content right away, or after learning these important things about buildadrive.com

At buildadrive.com you can create your own bespoke driveway from the comfort of your home. Measure your drive, choose a surface & style & we do the rest!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buildadrive.com page load time and found that the first response time was 778 ms and then it took 8.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buildadrive.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.5 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,110 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buildadrive.com

778 ms

featherlight.css

256 ms

slick-theme.css

256 ms

slick.css

261 ms

flexboxgrid.min.css

283 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Buildadrive.com, 19% (16 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 14% (12 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Buildadrive.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 172.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Buildadrive.com main page is 4.1 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. 85% 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 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 37.3 kB

  • Original 49.4 kB
  • After minification 49.3 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 37.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 114.2 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Build A Drive images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 257.0 kB
  • After minification 257.0 kB
  • After compression 243.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 91.0 kB
  • After minification 91.0 kB
  • After compression 83.8 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. Buildadrive.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (32%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Build A Drive. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

buildadrive.com accessibility score

55

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

buildadrive.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

buildadrive.com SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Buildadrive.com 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 Buildadrive.com 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 Build A Drive. 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: