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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

welchstransport.co.uk

Welch's Transport | Welch Group | Freight and Haulage

Page Load Speed

9.5 sec in total

First Response

332 ms

Resources Loaded

8.4 sec

Page Rendered

700 ms

About Website

Welcome to welchstransport.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Welch S Transport best content right away, or after learning these important things about welchstransport.co.uk

With over 80 years experience within the transport industry, alongside our 80 strong vehicle fleet located across four UK sites, we can support any company's logistical or warehousing needs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Welchstransport.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 332 ms and then it took 9.1 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

welchstransport.co.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.106

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

welchstransport.co.uk

332 ms

1095 ms

script.js

42 ms

ekh6huj.css

106 ms

frontend.css

316 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Welchstransport.co.uk, 89% (103 requests) were made to Welchgroup.co.uk and 4% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Welchgroup.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 276.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Welchstransport.co.uk main page is 3.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 208.1 kB

  • Original 244.9 kB
  • After minification 234.4 kB
  • After compression 36.8 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 208.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 33.1 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Welch S Transport images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 196.2 kB
  • After minification 196.2 kB
  • After compression 180.1 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 186.8 kB
  • After minification 186.8 kB
  • After compression 167.8 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. Welchstransport.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 66 (61%)

Requests Now

109

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 109 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Welch S Transport. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 41 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

welchstransport.co.uk accessibility score

95

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

welchstransport.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

welchstransport.co.uk SEO score

90

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 Welchstransport.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 Welchstransport.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 Welch S Transport. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: