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Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

apexfloors.co.uk

Apex Screed Flooring - Over 30 Years Installing Experience

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

247 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

312 ms

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About Website

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

APEX Screed and Flooring Specialists have been installing 1st class floors for over 30 years. We are a privately owned and family run business.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apexfloors.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 247 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apexfloors.co.uk performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

58/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apexfloors.co.uk

247 ms

apexfloors.co.uk

364 ms

css

25 ms

css

36 ms

bespoke.css

161 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Apexfloors.co.uk, 10% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (876 ms) belongs to the original domain Apexfloors.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 39.9 kB (2%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apexfloors.co.uk main page is 1.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 37.3 kB

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 30.2 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.9 kB, which is 28% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 37.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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 Floors images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 86.3 kB
  • After minification 86.3 kB
  • After compression 86.3 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

-14%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 18.7 kB
  • After minification 18.7 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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. Apexfloors.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.6 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

44

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apex Floors. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

apexfloors.co.uk

apexfloors.co.uk

247 ms

apexfloors.co.uk

apexfloors.co.uk

364 ms

css

css

25 ms

css

css

36 ms

bespoke.css

bespoke.css

161 ms

snap.svg.js

snap.svg.js

324 ms

main-min.js

main-min.js

367 ms

whitelogo.svg

whitelogo.svg

80 ms

chaslogo.png

chaslogo.png

165 ms

arrowdown.svg

arrowdown.svg

82 ms

arrow2.svg

arrow2.svg

158 ms

arrow1.svg

arrow1.svg

159 ms

homeslide1.jpg

homeslide1.jpg

471 ms

homeslide2.jpg

homeslide2.jpg

471 ms

screedslide1.jpg

screedslide1.jpg

314 ms

decorativeslide1.jpg

decorativeslide1.jpg

469 ms

bsi.png

bsi.png

247 ms

apex-cemex.png

apex-cemex.png

248 ms

apex-ardex.png

apex-ardex.png

330 ms

apex-kingspan.png

apex-kingspan.png

331 ms

apex-celotex.png

apex-celotex.png

393 ms

apex-mapei.png

apex-mapei.png

412 ms

apex-flowcrete.png

apex-flowcrete.png

413 ms

home1.jpg

home1.jpg

549 ms

homeslide3.jpg

homeslide3.jpg

660 ms

homeslide4.jpg

homeslide4.jpg

660 ms

homeslide5.jpg

homeslide5.jpg

702 ms

aldi.jpg

aldi.jpg

549 ms

asda.jpg

asda.jpg

547 ms

blue.jpg

blue.jpg

703 ms

gat.jpg

gat.jpg

627 ms

jones.jpg

jones.jpg

626 ms

lidl.jpg

lidl.jpg

704 ms

mcalpine.jpg

mcalpine.jpg

706 ms

mccarthy.jpg

mccarthy.jpg

742 ms

metro.jpg

metro.jpg

741 ms

ms.jpg

ms.jpg

779 ms

paul.jpg

paul.jpg

781 ms

pl.jpg

pl.jpg

782 ms

redrow.jpg

redrow.jpg

784 ms

sains.jpg

sains.jpg

824 ms

sir.jpg

sir.jpg

803 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

876 ms

tesco.jpg

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783 ms

tk.jpg

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782 ms

trafford.jpg

trafford.jpg

708 ms

vic.jpg

vic.jpg

833 ms

Accessibility Review

apexfloors.co.uk accessibility score

71

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

apexfloors.co.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

apexfloors.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

apexfloors.co.uk

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