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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

ukcsa.co.uk

UK Cast Stone Association (UKCSA) | UKCSA for all your cast stone information

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

326 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

About Website

Welcome to ukcsa.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check UKCSA best content right away, or after learning these important things about ukcsa.co.uk

The UK Cast Stone Association (UKCSA) is the main source for all of the information you will need about Cast Stone, its specification, manufacture and use.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ukcsa.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 326 ms and then it took 7.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ukcsa.co.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.179

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ukcsa.co.uk

326 ms

ukcsa.co.uk

1225 ms

css

60 ms

grid.css

240 ms

base.css

329 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (107 requests) were addressed to the original Ukcsa.co.uk, 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Ukcsa.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (49%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ukcsa.co.uk main page is 3.1 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. 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 69.5 kB

  • Original 82.8 kB
  • After minification 80.5 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 69.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 75.8 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. UKCSA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 309.3 kB

  • Original 398.2 kB
  • After minification 299.8 kB
  • After compression 88.8 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 309.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 149.5 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. Ukcsa.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 84 (77%)

Requests Now

109

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 109 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UKCSA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 51 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ukcsa.co.uk accessibility score

94

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Best Practices

ukcsa.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ukcsa.co.uk SEO score

98

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

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 Ukcsa.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 Ukcsa.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 UKCSA. 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: