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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

barkstonltd.co.uk

Barkston Plastics Engineering Company - Plastic Engineering Solutions

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

546 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

311 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barkstonltd.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 546 ms and then it took 3.2 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

barkstonltd.co.uk performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,440 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.378

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

barkstonltd.co.uk

546 ms

layerslider.css

79 ms

cleantalk-public.min.css

156 ms

simple-banner.css

231 ms

766816dd0fd82c6b5f4e5ed7beb366d5.min.css

558 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Barkstonltd.co.uk, 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Js.hs-scripts.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (793 ms) belongs to the original domain Barkstonltd.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 352.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

8.7 MB

After Optimization

8.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Barkstonltd.co.uk main page is 8.7 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. 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 8.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 163.4 kB

  • Original 191.2 kB
  • After minification 189.2 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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 163.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 187.5 kB

  • Original 8.0 MB
  • After minification 7.8 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. Barkston Ltd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 213 B

  • Original 288.5 kB
  • After minification 288.5 kB
  • After compression 288.3 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 979 B

  • Original 188.1 kB
  • After minification 188.1 kB
  • After compression 187.1 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. Barkstonltd.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (19%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

64

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barkston Ltd. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

barkstonltd.co.uk accessibility score

89

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

barkstonltd.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

barkstonltd.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Barkstonltd.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 Barkstonltd.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 data is detected on the main page of Barkston Ltd. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: