Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 41

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

ucs.co.uk

UCS - Data Acquisition - Industrial Automation and Control - Industrial Computing

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

239 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

324 ms

ucs.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Specialists in industrial automation, data acquisition and industrial computers. European supplier of Advantech, Portwell, ITOX and ICP DAS products.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ucs.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 239 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ucs.co.uk performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ucs.co.uk

239 ms

ucs.css

179 ms

ga.js

24 ms

ucs-banner.png

207 ms

ucslogo.gif

164 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Ucs.co.uk, 12% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (669 ms) belongs to the original domain Ucs.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.8 kB (16%)

Content Size

112.1 kB

After Optimization

94.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Ucs.co.uk main page is 112.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 75.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 18.6 kB
  • After minification 12.7 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 5.9 kB, which is 32% 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 15.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 75.5 kB
  • After minification 73.0 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. UCS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-21%

Potential reduce by 167 B

  • Original 790 B
  • After minification 790 B
  • After compression 623 B

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. Ucs.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 167 B or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (38%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UCS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ucs.co.uk accessibility score

41

Accessibility Issues

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ucs.co.uk best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

ucs.co.uk SEO score

62

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

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 Ucs.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 Ucs.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 UCS. 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: