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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

contractorsunlimited.co.uk

contractors unlimited | contract engineers project news, products and services

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

242 ms

Resources Loaded

752 ms

Page Rendered

89 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Contractorsunlimited.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 242 ms and then it took 841 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

contractorsunlimited.co.uk performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

90/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,030 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

contractorsunlimited.co.uk

242 ms

styles.css

97 ms

js

69 ms

adsbygoogle.js

154 ms

ga.js

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Contractorsunlimited.co.uk, 14% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 14% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (257 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 374.8 kB (59%)

Content Size

636.8 kB

After Optimization

262.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Contractorsunlimited.co.uk main page is 636.8 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 592.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 7.6 kB
  • After minification 7.5 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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 4.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-99%

Potential reduce by 35.0 kB

  • Original 35.5 kB
  • After minification 434 B

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, Contractors Unlimited needs image optimization as it can save up to 35.0 kB or 99% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 334.7 kB

  • Original 592.4 kB
  • After minification 592.4 kB
  • After compression 257.7 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 334.7 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 378 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 902 B

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. Contractorsunlimited.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 378 B or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (23%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Contractors Unlimited. 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 JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

contractorsunlimited.co.uk

contractorsunlimited.co.uk

242 ms

styles.css

styles.css

97 ms

js

js

69 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

154 ms

ga.js

ga.js

20 ms

bg.gif

bg.gif

109 ms

contractorsunlimited.gif

contractorsunlimited.gif

153 ms

greyfade1.jpg

greyfade1.jpg

158 ms

kingsbridge%20574%20x%2074%20banner.png

kingsbridge%20574%20x%2074%20banner.png

233 ms

contractorguides.gif

contractorguides.gif

165 ms

servicesdirectory.gif

servicesdirectory.gif

167 ms

advertising.gif

advertising.gif

167 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

54 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

257 ms

Accessibility Review

contractorsunlimited.co.uk accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

contractorsunlimited.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

contractorsunlimited.co.uk SEO score

95

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Contractorsunlimited.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 Contractorsunlimited.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

contractorsunlimited.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Contractors Unlimited. 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: