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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

buildernetwork.co.uk

Builder Network | Index

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

917 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

115 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buildernetwork.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 917 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buildernetwork.co.uk performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.9 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buildernetwork.co.uk

917 ms

common.css

158 ms

style.css

160 ms

colours.css

161 ms

layout.css

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Buildernetwork.co.uk, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (917 ms) belongs to the original domain Buildernetwork.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.4 kB (36%)

Content Size

92.1 kB

After Optimization

58.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buildernetwork.co.uk main page is 92.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 33.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 12.9 kB
  • After minification 12.6 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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 9.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 764 B

  • Original 33.5 kB
  • After minification 32.8 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. Builder Network images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 23.5 kB
  • After minification 22.4 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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 4.9 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 22.2 kB
  • After minification 17.8 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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. Buildernetwork.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (41%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Builder Network. 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 CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

buildernetwork.co.uk

buildernetwork.co.uk

917 ms

common.css

common.css

158 ms

style.css

style.css

160 ms

colours.css

colours.css

161 ms

layout.css

layout.css

163 ms

javascript.js

javascript.js

166 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

12 ms

cityvisitor.gif

cityvisitor.gif

619 ms

ga.js

ga.js

20 ms

builder_network.jpg

builder_network.jpg

80 ms

srtap1_left.jpg

srtap1_left.jpg

159 ms

contact_us.gif

contact_us.gif

160 ms

srtap1_right.jpg

srtap1_right.jpg

160 ms

srtap2_left.jpg

srtap2_left.jpg

161 ms

infoserve.jpg

infoserve.jpg

169 ms

srtap2_right.jpg

srtap2_right.jpg

242 ms

main_top.jpg

main_top.jpg

314 ms

right_top.jpg

right_top.jpg

316 ms

hammer.jpg

hammer.jpg

320 ms

welcome.jpg

welcome.jpg

333 ms

self_employed.jpg

self_employed.jpg

330 ms

spyglass.gif

spyglass.gif

402 ms

hat.jpg

hat.jpg

468 ms

toolbelt.jpg

toolbelt.jpg

469 ms

chasepr_uk_national.gif

chasepr_uk_national.gif

560 ms

main_bottom.jpg

main_bottom.jpg

490 ms

right_bottom.jpg

right_bottom.jpg

491 ms

srtap3_left.jpg

srtap3_left.jpg

556 ms

srtap3_right.jpg

srtap3_right.jpg

629 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

buildernetwork.co.uk accessibility score

51

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

buildernetwork.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

buildernetwork.co.uk SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Buildernetwork.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 Buildernetwork.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

buildernetwork.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Builder Network. 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: