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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

dalecontractors.co.uk

Dale Contractors Ltd - Builders & Civil Engineers in Burnley, Lancashire

Page Load Speed

20 sec in total

First Response

97 ms

Resources Loaded

19.9 sec

Page Rendered

67 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dalecontractors.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 97 ms and then it took 19.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

dalecontractors.co.uk performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

91/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dalecontractors.co.uk

97 ms

style.css

22 ms

dropdown.css

41 ms

default.css

42 ms

swfobject_modified.js

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Dalecontractors.co.uk, 4% (1 request) were made to Adobe.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.7 sec) relates to the external source Adobe.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 44.4 kB (52%)

Content Size

85.7 kB

After Optimization

41.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dalecontractors.co.uk main page is 85.7 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. Images take 65.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 14.1 kB
  • After minification 12.2 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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 1.9 kB, which is 14% 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 11.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 28.2 kB

  • Original 65.0 kB
  • After minification 36.9 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, Dale Contractors needs image optimization as it can save up to 28.2 kB or 43% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 6.5 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Dalecontractors.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (55%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dale Contractors. 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

dalecontractors.co.uk

dalecontractors.co.uk

97 ms

style.css

style.css

22 ms

dropdown.css

dropdown.css

41 ms

default.css

default.css

42 ms

swfobject_modified.js

swfobject_modified.js

42 ms

helper.css

helper.css

21 ms

border_top_left.jpg

border_top_left.jpg

26 ms

border_top.jpg

border_top.jpg

26 ms

border_top_right.jpg

border_top_right.jpg

26 ms

border_left.jpg

border_left.jpg

26 ms

dale_contractors_ltd_logo2.jpg

dale_contractors_ltd_logo2.jpg

44 ms

dale_contractors_ltd_contact.jpg

dale_contractors_ltd_contact.jpg

45 ms

border_right.jpg

border_right.jpg

46 ms

nav-arrow-down.png

nav-arrow-down.png

46 ms

nav-arrow-right.png

nav-arrow-right.png

65 ms

menu_shadow.jpg

menu_shadow.jpg

46 ms

menu_left_background.jpg

menu_left_background.jpg

65 ms

menu_heading2.jpg

menu_heading2.jpg

66 ms

menu_line.jpg

menu_line.jpg

67 ms

building_logos.jpg

building_logos.jpg

67 ms

border_bottom_frame.jpg

border_bottom_frame.jpg

67 ms

line.jpg

line.jpg

84 ms

get_flash_player.gif

get_flash_player.gif

19700 ms

Accessibility Review

dalecontractors.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

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

dalecontractors.co.uk best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

dalecontractors.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

Document uses plugins

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 Dalecontractors.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 Dalecontractors.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

dalecontractors.co.uk

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