Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

constructionrates.co.uk

Construction Rates Prices trades Building specification and cost data sub contractors units.

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Constructionrates.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

constructionrates.co.uk performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

85/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

constructionrates.co.uk

1390 ms

sdk.js

10 ms

spot-rates-pre-load.jpg

1047 ms

Banner_web_tex_top.JPG

1046 ms

Banner_web_tex.JPG

1047 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Constructionrates.co.uk, 15% (13 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Constructionrates.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 260.2 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

873.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Constructionrates.co.uk main page is 1.1 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 853.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 150.4 kB

  • Original 172.7 kB
  • After minification 166.0 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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. 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 150.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 107.9 kB

  • Original 853.5 kB
  • After minification 745.5 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. Obviously, Construction Rates needs image optimization as it can save up to 107.9 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 107.4 kB
  • After minification 107.3 kB
  • After compression 105.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (41%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Construction Rates. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

constructionrates.co.uk accessibility score

83

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

Best Practices

constructionrates.co.uk best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

constructionrates.co.uk SEO score

69

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 Constructionrates.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 Constructionrates.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Construction Rates. 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: