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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

benchmarktimber.co.uk

Timber Cladding, Cedar, Larch, Thermowood Custom Milling to order, Cedar Decking, Profiles & Trim

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

283 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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About Website

Visit benchmarktimber.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Benchmark Timber content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about benchmarktimber.co.uk

Beautiful quality Timber Cladding at competitive prices. We mill to order cladding in Western Red Cedar, Siberian Larch & Thermowood. We can also mill cladding trim and custom profiles to your design.

Visit benchmarktimber.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Benchmarktimber.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 283 ms and then it took 4.3 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

benchmarktimber.co.uk performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.099

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

benchmarktimber.co.uk

283 ms

www.benchmarktimber.co.uk

689 ms

foundation.min.css

44 ms

font-awesome.min.css

55 ms

slick.min.css

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (71 requests) were addressed to the original Benchmarktimber.co.uk, 9% (8 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Benchmarktimber.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 198.5 kB (4%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Benchmarktimber.co.uk main page is 4.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 68.9 kB

  • Original 84.2 kB
  • After minification 75.3 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.8 kB, which is 11% 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 68.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 127.4 kB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.5 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. Benchmark Timber images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 31.0 kB
  • After minification 31.0 kB
  • After compression 29.3 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 404 B

  • Original 8.2 kB
  • After minification 8.2 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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. Benchmarktimber.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (20%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

65

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Benchmark Timber. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

benchmarktimber.co.uk

benchmarktimber.co.uk

283 ms

www.benchmarktimber.co.uk

www.benchmarktimber.co.uk

689 ms

foundation.min.css

foundation.min.css

44 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

55 ms

slick.min.css

slick.min.css

61 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

247 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

253 ms

irr6pwi.js

irr6pwi.js

87 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

61 ms

js

js

81 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

17 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

15 ms

isotope.pkgd.min.js

isotope.pkgd.min.js

14 ms

jquery.colorbox-min.js

jquery.colorbox-min.js

87 ms

ft-functions.js

ft-functions.js

314 ms

jq-functions.js

jq-functions.js

314 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

317 ms

jq-cookie.js

jq-cookie.js

396 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

208 ms

benchmarktimber-logo.png

benchmarktimber-logo.png

478 ms

vt.png

vt.png

480 ms

Home.png

Home.png

638 ms

banner-accreditations.png

banner-accreditations.png

479 ms

banner-image.jpg

banner-image.jpg

706 ms

banner1.jpg

banner1.jpg

704 ms

banner3.jpg

banner3.jpg

704 ms

icon-saw.png

icon-saw.png

478 ms

4hlb8swflphk_timber%20cladding%20%20pages.jpg

4hlb8swflphk_timber%20cladding%20%20pages.jpg

608 ms

kfabqe5is9no_decking%20%20page.jpg

kfabqe5is9no_decking%20%20page.jpg

551 ms

cedar_ready_to_be_delivered.jpg

cedar_ready_to_be_delivered.jpg

639 ms

zt9lvrg3haha_welcome_image.jpg

zt9lvrg3haha_welcome_image.jpg

705 ms

mill.jpg

mill.jpg

727 ms

certified%20medium%20timber%20FSC.jpg

certified%20medium%20timber%20FSC.jpg

728 ms

cedar%20cladding%20project.jpg

cedar%20cladding%20project.jpg

770 ms

larch%20cladding%20front.jpg

larch%20cladding%20front.jpg

872 ms

20161031_134711.jpg

20161031_134711.jpg

876 ms

c9ac683f65.jpg

c9ac683f65.jpg

799 ms

timber_cladding_benefits.jpg

timber_cladding_benefits.jpg

825 ms

timber_cladding_installation.jpg

timber_cladding_installation.jpg

903 ms

ldivgyoxe1jn_custom_milling_picture.jpg

ldivgyoxe1jn_custom_milling_picture.jpg

858 ms

timber_cladding.jpg

timber_cladding.jpg

894 ms

canadian-cedar-wet.jpg

canadian-cedar-wet.jpg

932 ms

sustainable_timber_cladding.jpg

sustainable_timber_cladding.jpg

948 ms

cedar_two_piece_corner.jpg

cedar_two_piece_corner.jpg

957 ms

cedar_corner_post.jpg

cedar_corner_post.jpg

958 ms

4571150301.jpg

4571150301.jpg

979 ms

4621338168.jpg

4621338168.jpg

987 ms

4621338171.jpg

4621338171.jpg

1022 ms

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1039 ms

4621338166.jpg

4621338166.jpg

1041 ms

4528071069.jpg

4528071069.jpg

903 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

58 ms

Western_Red_Ceda_4a7d1b6c5b77f-250x250.jpg

Western_Red_Ceda_4a7d1b6c5b77f-250x250.jpg

886 ms

VT202%20-500x500.jpg

VT202%20-500x500.jpg

894 ms

Sivalbp%20Idaho%20New%20Age%20Gris%20102%202-500x500.jpg

Sivalbp%20Idaho%20New%20Age%20Gris%20102%202-500x500.jpg

933 ms

collect

collect

21 ms

js

js

254 ms

i

i

27 ms

i

i

40 ms

i

i

40 ms

i

i

78 ms

i

i

180 ms

benchmarktimber-logo-new.png

benchmarktimber-logo-new.png

654 ms

payment-methods.png

payment-methods.png

654 ms

4hlb8swflphk_timber%20cladding%20%20pages.jpg

4hlb8swflphk_timber%20cladding%20%20pages.jpg

660 ms

kfabqe5is9no_decking%20%20page.jpg

kfabqe5is9no_decking%20%20page.jpg

674 ms

cedar_ready_to_be_delivered.jpg

cedar_ready_to_be_delivered.jpg

665 ms

zt9lvrg3haha_welcome_image.jpg

zt9lvrg3haha_welcome_image.jpg

652 ms

mill.jpg

mill.jpg

612 ms

certified%20medium%20timber%20FSC.jpg

certified%20medium%20timber%20FSC.jpg

578 ms

cedar%20cladding%20project.jpg

cedar%20cladding%20project.jpg

591 ms

larch%20cladding%20front.jpg

larch%20cladding%20front.jpg

622 ms

20161031_134711.jpg

20161031_134711.jpg

559 ms

c9ac683f65.jpg

c9ac683f65.jpg

590 ms

timber_cladding_benefits.jpg

timber_cladding_benefits.jpg

601 ms

timber_cladding_installation.jpg

timber_cladding_installation.jpg

587 ms

ldivgyoxe1jn_custom_milling_picture.jpg

ldivgyoxe1jn_custom_milling_picture.jpg

591 ms

timber_cladding.jpg

timber_cladding.jpg

587 ms

cedar_two_piece_corner.jpg

cedar_two_piece_corner.jpg

580 ms

cedar_corner_post.jpg

cedar_corner_post.jpg

566 ms

4571150301.jpg

4571150301.jpg

540 ms

4621338168.jpg

4621338168.jpg

532 ms

4621338171.jpg

4621338171.jpg

537 ms

4571153852.jpg

4571153852.jpg

549 ms

4621338166.jpg

4621338166.jpg

563 ms

4528071069.jpg

4528071069.jpg

542 ms

Western_Red_Ceda_4a7d1b6c5b77f-250x250.jpg

Western_Red_Ceda_4a7d1b6c5b77f-250x250.jpg

534 ms

VT202%20-500x500.jpg

VT202%20-500x500.jpg

531 ms

Sivalbp%20Idaho%20New%20Age%20Gris%20102%202-500x500.jpg

Sivalbp%20Idaho%20New%20Age%20Gris%20102%202-500x500.jpg

541 ms

Accessibility Review

benchmarktimber.co.uk accessibility score

78

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

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

benchmarktimber.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

benchmarktimber.co.uk SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Benchmarktimber.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 Benchmarktimber.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

benchmarktimber.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Benchmark Timber. 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: