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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

balmanddavies.co.uk

Balm & Davies Ltd : Mechanical and Electrical Engineers

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

95 ms

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About Website

Welcome to balmanddavies.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Balm And Davies best content right away, or after learning these important things about balmanddavies.co.uk

For a long time Balm & Davies has been installing an maintaining mechanical and electrical services. Projects from all aspects are being undertaken from planned preventative maintenance to design and ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balmanddavies.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 180 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

balmanddavies.co.uk performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.133

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.balmanddavies.co.uk

180 ms

serve.php

87 ms

jquery.js

257 ms

slider.js

170 ms

feature.js

171 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Balmanddavies.co.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (424 ms) belongs to the original domain Balmanddavies.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 22.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

345.5 kB

After Optimization

322.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Balmanddavies.co.uk main page is 345.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 286.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 12.1 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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 1.7 kB, which is 14% 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 8.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 286.1 kB
  • After minification 273.5 kB

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. Balm And Davies images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 47.3 kB
  • After minification 47.3 kB
  • After compression 45.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (35%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balm And Davies. 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

www.balmanddavies.co.uk

www.balmanddavies.co.uk

180 ms

serve.php

serve.php

87 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

257 ms

slider.js

slider.js

170 ms

feature.js

feature.js

171 ms

ga.js

ga.js

26 ms

balm-and-davies-logo.jpg

balm-and-davies-logo.jpg

85 ms

nav-bar.jpg

nav-bar.jpg

86 ms

breaker.jpg

breaker.jpg

85 ms

nav-bar.jpg

nav-bar.jpg

86 ms

maintenance.jpg

maintenance.jpg

340 ms

electrical-engineering.jpg

electrical-engineering.jpg

340 ms

mechanical-engineering.jpg

mechanical-engineering.jpg

422 ms

trans-bg.png

trans-bg.png

172 ms

arrow.png

arrow.png

173 ms

banner-controller.jpg

banner-controller.jpg

172 ms

content-box-shadow.png

content-box-shadow.png

256 ms

gas-safe-logo.png

gas-safe-logo.png

256 ms

niceic-approved-contractor-logo.png

niceic-approved-contractor-logo.png

256 ms

chas-logo.png

chas-logo.png

340 ms

construction-line-logo.png

construction-line-logo.png

341 ms

iso9001-logo.png

iso9001-logo.png

341 ms

iso14001-logo.png

iso14001-logo.png

424 ms

ohsas18001-logo.png

ohsas18001-logo.png

424 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

balmanddavies.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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

balmanddavies.co.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

balmanddavies.co.uk SEO score

58

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Balmanddavies.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Balmanddavies.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

balmanddavies.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Balm And Davies. 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: