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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

jamessmithfencing.co.uk

James Smith Fencing | JSF | Fencing Supplies | Kirkcudbright

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

About Website

Welcome to jamessmithfencing.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check James Smith Fencing best content right away, or after learning these important things about jamessmithfencing.co.uk

As Scotland's largest and leading fencing supplier, James Smith Fencing (JSF) hold massive stocks of fence posts, wire and mesh, livestock fencing, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Jamessmithfencing.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 4.4 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

jamessmithfencing.co.uk performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value29.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,350 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.454

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value54.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

jamessmithfencing.co.uk

56 ms

www.jamessmithfencing.co.uk

680 ms

3a25083755cf205e0dbef62ed939da0f.min.css

117 ms

ec.min.css

31 ms

6b98112777be6c263fe8d65c093042a7.min.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (143 requests) were addressed to the original Jamessmithfencing.co.uk, 1% (2 requests) were made to Buildscotland.co.uk and 1% (1 request) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Buildscotland.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (5%)

Content Size

19.0 MB

After Optimization

18.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Jamessmithfencing.co.uk main page is 19.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 17.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 957.7 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 744.2 kB
  • After compression 91.5 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 305.0 kB, which is 29% 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 957.7 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 17.9 MB
  • After minification 17.9 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. James Smith Fencing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 32.1 kB
  • After minification 32.1 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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 13.0 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 60.8 kB

  • Original 73.7 kB
  • After minification 13.0 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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. Jamessmithfencing.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 60.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (5%)

Requests Now

143

After Optimization

136

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 143 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of James Smith Fencing. 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 from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

jamessmithfencing.co.uk accessibility score

87

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

jamessmithfencing.co.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

jamessmithfencing.co.uk SEO score

82

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

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

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 Jamessmithfencing.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 Jamessmithfencing.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 James Smith Fencing. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: