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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

birchwoodtrading.co.uk

Polycarbonate, Glazing Bar Systems, Kit Canopies and Roofing Products | Birchwood Trading

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

396 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

270 ms

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About Website

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

Birchwood Trading offer a range of roofing products, including polycarbonate glazing, glazing bars, canopies, dome rooflights and tapco slates.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Birchwoodtrading.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 396 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

birchwoodtrading.co.uk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

birchwoodtrading.co.uk

396 ms

Default.aspx

440 ms

Default

224 ms

normalize.css

525 ms

foundation.css

703 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Birchwoodtrading.co.uk, 21% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (898 ms) belongs to the original domain Birchwoodtrading.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 121.6 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Birchwoodtrading.co.uk main page is 2.0 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. 75% 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 56.3 kB

  • Original 71.6 kB
  • After minification 56.3 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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 15.3 kB, which is 21% 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 56.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Birchwood Trading images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 30.4 kB

  • Original 145.8 kB
  • After minification 145.4 kB
  • After compression 115.4 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 30.4 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 27.4 kB

  • Original 57.2 kB
  • After minification 56.1 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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. Birchwoodtrading.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.4 kB or 48% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (53%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Birchwood Trading. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

birchwoodtrading.co.uk

birchwoodtrading.co.uk

396 ms

Default.aspx

Default.aspx

440 ms

Default

Default

224 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

525 ms

foundation.css

foundation.css

703 ms

general.css

general.css

544 ms

sections.css

sections.css

639 ms

template.css

template.css

565 ms

custom.css

custom.css

571 ms

css

css

30 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

607 ms

AdapterUtils.js

AdapterUtils.js

628 ms

MenuAdapter.js

MenuAdapter.js

649 ms

KartrisInterface.js

KartrisInterface.js

654 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

776 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

722 ms

webkit.js

webkit.js

724 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

754 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

754 ms

Default.aspx

Default.aspx

797 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

890 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

898 ms

fastclick.js

fastclick.js

821 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

144 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

21 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

45 ms

logo.png

logo.png

198 ms

rite-edge-logo.png

rite-edge-logo.png

153 ms

tapco-logo.png

tapco-logo.png

175 ms

x-black.png

x-black.png

202 ms

Image.aspx

Image.aspx

236 ms

Image.aspx

Image.aspx

257 ms

Image.aspx

Image.aspx

266 ms

Image.aspx

Image.aspx

275 ms

Image.aspx

Image.aspx

282 ms

Image.aspx

Image.aspx

286 ms

Image.aspx

Image.aspx

320 ms

x-white.png

x-white.png

343 ms

facebook-small.png

facebook-small.png

351 ms

instagram-small.png

instagram-small.png

360 ms

youtube-small.png

youtube-small.png

366 ms

rss-small.png

rss-small.png

371 ms

collect

collect

29 ms

collect

collect

40 ms

Default

Default

355 ms

Image

Image

228 ms

Image

Image

207 ms

Image

Image

200 ms

Image

Image

190 ms

Image

Image

185 ms

Image

Image

254 ms

Image

Image

220 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

92 ms

icon_shopping_cart.png

icon_shopping_cart.png

91 ms

orbit_bg.jpg

orbit_bg.jpg

430 ms

simplicity-canopy.jpg

simplicity-canopy.jpg

366 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

26 ms

font

font

46 ms

litter-bins-bg.jpg

litter-bins-bg.jpg

422 ms

canofix-bg.jpg

canofix-bg.jpg

182 ms

rite-edge.jpg

rite-edge.jpg

272 ms

tapco-bg.jpg

tapco-bg.jpg

260 ms

postprotectors-bg.jpg

postprotectors-bg.jpg

273 ms

rejuvenate-bg.jpg

rejuvenate-bg.jpg

310 ms

uwt.js

uwt.js

18 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

21 ms

settings

settings

73 ms

adsct

adsct

129 ms

adsct

adsct

106 ms

timeline.e108540dddc96e4b707f5cf259a582d7.js

timeline.e108540dddc96e4b707f5cf259a582d7.js

3 ms

BirchwoodTradin

BirchwoodTradin

66 ms

polyfills-a40ef1678bae11e696dba45124eadd70.js

polyfills-a40ef1678bae11e696dba45124eadd70.js

3 ms

runtime-b1c52fd0a13ead5fcf6b.js

runtime-b1c52fd0a13ead5fcf6b.js

17 ms

modules-96ebc7ac3ad66d681a3d.js

modules-96ebc7ac3ad66d681a3d.js

20 ms

main-babd9234dc048fb47339.js

main-babd9234dc048fb47339.js

30 ms

_app-a9c9f1a99e4414675fb1.js

_app-a9c9f1a99e4414675fb1.js

28 ms

%5BscreenName%5D-0517bdda27d5006a5a2d.js

%5BscreenName%5D-0517bdda27d5006a5a2d.js

29 ms

_buildManifest.js

_buildManifest.js

28 ms

_ssgManifest.js

_ssgManifest.js

53 ms

8526.0c32a8f0cfc5749221a3.js

8526.0c32a8f0cfc5749221a3.js

11 ms

1755.07a49c40b12af4f75780.js

1755.07a49c40b12af4f75780.js

10 ms

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8283.f3e5048cca7cef5eed7f.js

4 ms

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3077.44bfeb00af01bc4020f6.js

14 ms

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1362.42d432e02f7980bca032.js

6 ms

4956.c4e51ef593974b9db0bb.js

4956.c4e51ef593974b9db0bb.js

13 ms

5893.d500bd2a89ded806aa73.js

5893.d500bd2a89ded806aa73.js

12 ms

Accessibility Review

birchwoodtrading.co.uk accessibility score

81

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

birchwoodtrading.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

birchwoodtrading.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 Birchwoodtrading.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 Birchwoodtrading.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

birchwoodtrading.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Birchwood Trading. 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: