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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% 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

4.2 sec in total

First Response

371 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

363 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 371 ms and then it took 3.8 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

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.471

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apecgroundworks.co.uk

371 ms

www.apecgroundworks.co.uk

307 ms

www.apecgroundworks.co.uk

811 ms

gtm.js

70 ms

modernizr-custom.js

159 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (71 requests) were addressed to the original Apecgroundworks.co.uk, 9% (9 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 5% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (905 ms) belongs to the original domain Apecgroundworks.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (40%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apecgroundworks.co.uk main page is 4.5 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 88.7 kB

  • Original 111.9 kB
  • After minification 107.2 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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 88.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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

-76%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 435.8 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 1.4 MB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 308.8 kB

  • Original 399.6 kB
  • After minification 309.1 kB
  • After compression 90.8 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. Apecgroundworks.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 308.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (65%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 86 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 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

apecgroundworks.co.uk

apecgroundworks.co.uk

371 ms

www.apecgroundworks.co.uk

www.apecgroundworks.co.uk

307 ms

www.apecgroundworks.co.uk

www.apecgroundworks.co.uk

811 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

70 ms

modernizr-custom.js

modernizr-custom.js

159 ms

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339 ms

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636 ms

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319 ms

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331 ms

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332 ms

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331 ms

grid.locale-en.js

grid.locale-en.js

396 ms

jquery.jqGrid.min.js

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726 ms

members.js

members.js

488 ms

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411 ms

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416 ms

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556 ms

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574 ms

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494 ms

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568 ms

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572 ms

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648 ms

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649 ms

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657 ms

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818 ms

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718 ms

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712 ms

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723 ms

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749 ms

moment.js

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881 ms

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797 ms

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808 ms

shop-items.css

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801 ms

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815 ms

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905 ms

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880 ms

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890 ms

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893 ms

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903 ms

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882 ms

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802 ms

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653 ms

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644 ms

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657 ms

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702 ms

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697 ms

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708 ms

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30 ms

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18 ms

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28 ms

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84 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: