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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

castings-services.co.uk

Castings Services Ltd - Suppliers of Manhole Covers, Pipes and Valves

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

252 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

664 ms

castings-services.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to castings-services.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Castings Services best content right away, or after learning these important things about castings-services.co.uk

Castings Services - Supplying Manhole Covers, Gully Grates, Municipal Castings and Pipeline Products Throughout The UK and Across The World for 30 Years.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castings-services.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 252 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

castings-services.co.uk performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

castings-services.co.uk

252 ms

www.castings-services.co.uk

400 ms

0054e.css

326 ms

55c9c.css

301 ms

36f66.css

370 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (97 requests) were addressed to the original Castings-services.co.uk, 16% (19 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Castings-services.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 272.9 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Castings-services.co.uk main page is 2.7 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. 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 89.2 kB

  • Original 107.4 kB
  • After minification 107.3 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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 89.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Castings Services images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 292.7 kB
  • After minification 292.7 kB
  • After compression 289.9 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

-66%

Potential reduce by 151.1 kB

  • Original 229.6 kB
  • After minification 78.5 kB
  • After compression 78.4 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. Castings-services.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 151.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (70%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Castings Services. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 65 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

castings-services.co.uk accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

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

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

castings-services.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

castings-services.co.uk SEO score

84

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

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 Castings-services.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 Castings-services.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

castings-services.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Castings Services. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: