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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

aecontractors.co.uk

AE Contractors Ltd | General Builders and Kitchen & Bathroom refurbishment specialists

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

622 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

732 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aecontractors.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 622 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aecontractors.co.uk performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value5.233

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aecontractors.co.uk

622 ms

slick.css

173 ms

slick-theme.css

174 ms

bootstrap.min.css

430 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

174 ms

Our browser made a total of 175 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (165 requests) were addressed to the original Aecontractors.co.uk, 3% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Aecontractors.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 547.0 kB (5%)

Content Size

10.7 MB

After Optimization

10.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aecontractors.co.uk main page is 10.7 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. 80% 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 10.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 51.5 kB

  • Original 60.2 kB
  • After minification 43.4 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 16.9 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 51.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 176.2 kB

  • Original 10.2 MB
  • After minification 10.0 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. AE Contractors images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 189.6 kB

  • Original 247.9 kB
  • After minification 198.0 kB
  • After compression 58.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 189.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 129.7 kB

  • Original 156.3 kB
  • After minification 147.6 kB
  • After compression 26.7 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. Aecontractors.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 129.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (15%)

Requests Now

168

After Optimization

142

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 168 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AE Contractors. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

aecontractors.co.uk accessibility score

79

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

aecontractors.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

aecontractors.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Aecontractors.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 Aecontractors.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of AE Contractors. 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: