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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

apexdrilling.co.uk

Apex Drilling Services | UK Drilling Services | Water Wells | Geothermal

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

487 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

266 ms

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About Website

Visit apexdrilling.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Apex Drilling content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about apexdrilling.co.uk

Apex Drilling Services provides specialist drilling services throughout the UK including geothermal, water wells, contamination drilling, coal bed methane and ground investigation to name but a few.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apexdrilling.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 487 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apexdrilling.co.uk performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.377

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apexdrilling.co.uk

487 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

231 ms

bootstrap.css

453 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

228 ms

bootstrap.min.js

245 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Apexdrilling.co.uk, 12% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (516 ms) belongs to the original domain Apexdrilling.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 505.0 kB (21%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apexdrilling.co.uk main page is 2.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 11.1 kB
  • After minification 10.1 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 7.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 240.3 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Obviously, Apex Drilling needs image optimization as it can save up to 240.3 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 102.3 kB

  • Original 402.5 kB
  • After minification 395.5 kB
  • After compression 300.2 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 102.3 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 155.0 kB

  • Original 182.0 kB
  • After minification 148.4 kB
  • After compression 27.0 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. Apexdrilling.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 155.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (39%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apex Drilling. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

apexdrilling.co.uk

apexdrilling.co.uk

487 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

231 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

453 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

bootstrap-responsive.css

228 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

245 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

246 ms

apexdrill.css

apexdrill.css

156 ms

apexdrill_responsive.css

apexdrill_responsive.css

246 ms

css

css

30 ms

api.js

api.js

46 ms

recaptcha.js

recaptcha.js

305 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

307 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

316 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

310 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

12 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

78 ms

apexdrilling_logo.png

apexdrilling_logo.png

141 ms

home.jpg

home.jpg

205 ms

33.png

33.png

140 ms

34.png

34.png

140 ms

iceberg.png

iceberg.png

352 ms

picofweek.png

picofweek.png

277 ms

pics.png

pics.png

209 ms

worksafe.png

worksafe.png

439 ms

constructionline.png

constructionline.png

282 ms

acm.png

acm.png

510 ms

ccnsg.png

ccnsg.png

363 ms

cscs.jpg

cscs.jpg

359 ms

passport.jpg

passport.jpg

389 ms

bda.png

bda.png

434 ms

ukas.jpg

ukas.jpg

512 ms

cityandguilds.png

cityandguilds.png

440 ms

footer_ats_01.png

footer_ats_01.png

465 ms

footer_01.png

footer_01.png

511 ms

footer_apex_01.png

footer_apex_01.png

516 ms

collect

collect

73 ms

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98 ms

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98 ms

js

js

101 ms

Accessibility Review

apexdrilling.co.uk accessibility score

70

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

apexdrilling.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

apexdrilling.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Apexdrilling.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 Apexdrilling.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

apexdrilling.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Apex Drilling. 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: