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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

apecgroundworks.co.uk

Groundworks Norfolk | APEC Groundworks Ltd (AGL) | Groundworks Norfolk

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

315 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

329 ms

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About Website

Welcome to apecgroundworks.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check APEC Groundworks best content right away, or after learning these important things about apecgroundworks.co.uk

APEC Groundworks are a groundworks, landscaping and utilities company, based in Norfolk and operating across East Anglia. Call 01379 673 024 for more information.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apecgroundworks.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 315 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apecgroundworks.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.72

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apecgroundworks.co.uk

315 ms

www.apecgroundworks.co.uk

237 ms

www.apecgroundworks.co.uk

868 ms

gtm.js

60 ms

modernizr-custom.js

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (71 requests) were addressed to the original Apecgroundworks.co.uk, 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (981 ms) belongs to the original domain Apecgroundworks.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (29%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apecgroundworks.co.uk main page is 4.0 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. 75% 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 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 91.5 kB

  • Original 115.0 kB
  • After minification 110.4 kB
  • After compression 23.5 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. 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 91.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. APEC Groundworks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 791.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 458.5 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 791.2 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 297.6 kB

  • Original 388.6 kB
  • After minification 310.7 kB
  • After compression 90.9 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. Apecgroundworks.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 297.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (65%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of APEC Groundworks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

apecgroundworks.co.uk

apecgroundworks.co.uk

315 ms

www.apecgroundworks.co.uk

www.apecgroundworks.co.uk

237 ms

www.apecgroundworks.co.uk

www.apecgroundworks.co.uk

868 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

60 ms

modernizr-custom.js

modernizr-custom.js

170 ms

jquery-1.4.4.min.js

jquery-1.4.4.min.js

344 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

646 ms

jquery.scrollTo-1.4.2-min.js

jquery.scrollTo-1.4.2-min.js

328 ms

jquery-ui-touch-punch.min.js

jquery-ui-touch-punch.min.js

336 ms

jquery.tools.min.js

jquery.tools.min.js

338 ms

jquery.jqprint.0.3.1.js

jquery.jqprint.0.3.1.js

340 ms

grid.locale-en.js

grid.locale-en.js

407 ms

jquery.jqGrid.min.js

jquery.jqGrid.min.js

753 ms

members.js

members.js

505 ms

jquery.MetaData.js

jquery.MetaData.js

422 ms

jquery.rating.pack.js

jquery.rating.pack.js

427 ms

jquery.elevateZoom-3.0.8.min.js

jquery.elevateZoom-3.0.8.min.js

568 ms

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590 ms

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509 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

588 ms

clock.js

clock.js

593 ms

emailvalid.js

emailvalid.js

659 ms

conditionizr.min.js

conditionizr.min.js

669 ms

default.js

default.js

768 ms

transitions.debug.js

transitions.debug.js

770 ms

slider.js

slider.js

731 ms

xmlsupport.js

xmlsupport.js

729 ms

dstyles.js

dstyles.js

767 ms

ecommerce.js

ecommerce.js

812 ms

moment.js

moment.js

822 ms

jquery.json-2.4.min.js

jquery.json-2.4.min.js

832 ms

site-defaults.css

site-defaults.css

836 ms

shop-items.css

shop-items.css

842 ms

chunks.css

chunks.css

852 ms

bongomods-defaults.css

bongomods-defaults.css

981 ms

carousel-slider.css

carousel-slider.css

901 ms

box_defaults.css

box_defaults.css

914 ms

dstyles.css

dstyles.css

916 ms

widget50.css

widget50.css

933 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

864 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

18 ms

collect

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12 ms

js

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49 ms

ui.jqgrid.css

ui.jqgrid.css

818 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

678 ms

gmi.css

gmi.css

669 ms

website.css

website.css

686 ms

DXR.axd

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734 ms

WebResource.axd

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726 ms

DXR.axd

DXR.axd

711 ms

css

css

24 ms

css

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12 ms

sdk.js

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37 ms

body-bg.png

body-bg.png

125 ms

header-bg.png

header-bg.png

124 ms

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123 ms

Logo2.png

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125 ms

Groundworks-slide.jpg

Groundworks-slide.jpg

654 ms

Civil-Engineering.jpg

Civil-Engineering.jpg

168 ms

water-drainage-slide.jpg

water-drainage-slide.jpg

626 ms

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654 ms

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655 ms

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653 ms

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653 ms

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652 ms

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715 ms

APEC-Landscaping.jpg

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714 ms

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713 ms

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712 ms

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714 ms

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716 ms

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790 ms

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789 ms

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792 ms

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460 ms

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323 ms

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Accessibility Review

apecgroundworks.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.

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

apecgroundworks.co.uk 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

apecgroundworks.co.uk SEO score

84

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Apecgroundworks.co.uk 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 Apecgroundworks.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

apecgroundworks.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of APEC Groundworks. 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: