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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

alcoeng.co.uk

Sheet Metal Fabrication | Laser Cutting | Alco Engineering

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

591 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

259 ms

About Website

Welcome to alcoeng.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Alco Eng best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about alcoeng.co.uk

Alco are an established fabrication and laser cutting company based in Devon. We offer laser cutting, folding, welding and sheet metal fabrication.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alcoeng.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 591 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alcoeng.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,980 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alcoengineering.co.uk

591 ms

calendar.css

19 ms

styles-m.css

36 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

21 ms

swiper.min.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 203 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Alcoeng.co.uk, 2% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 2% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (591 ms) relates to the external source Alcoengineering.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 247.7 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

889.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alcoeng.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. Javascripts take 623.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 94.2 kB

  • Original 112.0 kB
  • After minification 108.6 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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 94.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 235.8 kB
  • After minification 235.8 kB

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. Alco Eng images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 142.3 kB

  • Original 623.5 kB
  • After minification 619.2 kB
  • After compression 481.2 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 142.3 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 166.3 kB
  • After minification 166.1 kB
  • After compression 155.1 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. Alcoeng.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 166 (87%)

Requests Now

190

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 190 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alco Eng. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 152 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

alcoeng.co.uk accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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.

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

alcoeng.co.uk best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

alcoeng.co.uk SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Alcoeng.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 Alcoeng.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 Alco Eng. 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: