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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

brickservices.com

Brick Services - Providing traditional materials for a sustainable future. | Established in 1990 Brick Services have grown to become one of the larges...

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

152 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

About Website

Welcome to brickservices.com homepage info - get ready to check Brick Services best content right away, or after learning these important things about brickservices.com

Established in 1990 Brick Services have grown to become one of the largest brick distributors in the country supplying projects from Scotland to Devon.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brickservices.com page load time and found that the first response time was 152 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brickservices.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,220 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.003

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brickservices.com

152 ms

brickservices.com

176 ms

brick-services

463 ms

fwt6vvl.js

178 ms

formie-theme.css

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Brickservices.com, 82% (62 requests) were made to Brickability.co.uk and 14% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (857 ms) relates to the external source Brickability.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 288.0 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brickservices.com main page is 3.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 261.3 kB

  • Original 303.3 kB
  • After minification 302.5 kB
  • After compression 42.0 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 261.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 180 B

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Brick Services images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 26.6 kB

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 6.9 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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. Brickservices.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (5%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

60

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brick Services. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

brickservices.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

brickservices.com 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

brickservices.com 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 Brickservices.com 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 Brickservices.com 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 Brick Services. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: