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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

alpharowen.co.uk

Alpha-Rowen Ltd - Heat treatment specialists (austempering and oil hardening) for the spring and presswork trades

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

231 ms

Resources Loaded

957 ms

Page Rendered

87 ms

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About Website

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Alpha-Rowen Ltd remain the largest UK sub-contractor of austempering servicing the spring and presswork market. Our broad range of furnaces can deal with one-offs through to multi-tonne batches within...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alpharowen.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 231 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alpharowen.co.uk performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alpharowen.co.uk

231 ms

alpha_rowen_screen.css

93 ms

rounded_corners.inc.js

353 ms

rounded_corners.settings.js

181 ms

swfir.js

270 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Alpharowen.co.uk, 14% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (362 ms) belongs to the original domain Alpharowen.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 118.8 kB (40%)

Content Size

295.5 kB

After Optimization

176.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alpharowen.co.uk main page is 295.5 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 152.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 44.6 kB

  • Original 48.7 kB
  • After minification 48.0 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 44.6 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 152.7 kB
  • After minification 144.6 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. Alpha Rowen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 60.4 kB

  • Original 87.0 kB
  • After minification 55.2 kB
  • After compression 26.6 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 60.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 7.1 kB
  • After minification 5.3 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Alpharowen.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (31%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alpha Rowen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alpharowen.co.uk

alpharowen.co.uk

231 ms

alpha_rowen_screen.css

alpha_rowen_screen.css

93 ms

rounded_corners.inc.js

rounded_corners.inc.js

353 ms

rounded_corners.settings.js

rounded_corners.settings.js

181 ms

swfir.js

swfir.js

270 ms

swfir_settings.js

swfir_settings.js

184 ms

body_bkgrd.png

body_bkgrd.png

93 ms

alpha_rowen_header.png

alpha_rowen_header.png

362 ms

photo_furnace_mouth.jpg

photo_furnace_mouth.jpg

89 ms

photo_furnace2.jpg

photo_furnace2.jpg

92 ms

list_bullet.png

list_bullet.png

96 ms

footer_bkgrd.png

footer_bkgrd.png

176 ms

ga.js

ga.js

10 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

alpharowen.co.uk accessibility score

87

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

Best Practices

alpharowen.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

alpharowen.co.uk SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Alpharowen.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 Alpharowen.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

alpharowen.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Alpha Rowen. 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: