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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

apex-pest-control.co.uk

Apex Pest Control | Local Pest Experts Sheffield, Rotherham & Barnsley

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

198 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

953 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apex-pest-control.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 198 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apex-pest-control.co.uk performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,650 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apex-pest-control.co.uk

198 ms

apex-pest-control.co.uk

745 ms

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482 ms

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37 ms

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274 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Apex-pest-control.co.uk, 49% (41 requests) were made to Fonts.bunny.net and 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (745 ms) belongs to the original domain Apex-pest-control.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 525.1 kB (14%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apex-pest-control.co.uk main page is 3.8 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 420.9 kB

  • Original 540.8 kB
  • After minification 532.7 kB
  • After compression 119.8 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 420.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 102.7 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Apex Pest Control images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 935 B

  • Original 532.7 kB
  • After minification 532.7 kB
  • After compression 531.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 553 B

  • Original 104.3 kB
  • After minification 104.3 kB
  • After compression 103.7 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. Apex-pest-control.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (55%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apex Pest Control. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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198 ms

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745 ms

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29 ms

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128 ms

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343 ms

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145 ms

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251 ms

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251 ms

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Accessibility Review

apex-pest-control.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.

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

apex-pest-control.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

apex-pest-control.co.uk SEO score

77

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

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 Apex-pest-control.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 Apex-pest-control.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

apex-pest-control.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Apex Pest Control. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: