Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

elcroofing.co.uk

Roofing Contractors & Specialists | ELC Roofing

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

655 ms

elcroofing.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to elcroofing.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check ELC Roofing best content right away, or after learning these important things about elcroofing.co.uk

ELC are one of the fastest-growing roofing companies, with teams of roofers providing everything from roof repairs to zinc installations.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Elcroofing.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 6.5 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

elcroofing.co.uk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.055

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.elcroofing.co.uk

1164 ms

styles.css

147 ms

font-awesome.css

222 ms

frontend.css

224 ms

stmicons.css

224 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (98 requests) were addressed to the original Elcroofing.co.uk, 9% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Elcroofing.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 266.8 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Elcroofing.co.uk main page is 1.7 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 802.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 232.3 kB

  • Original 267.0 kB
  • After minification 238.5 kB
  • After compression 34.7 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 28.5 kB, which is 11% 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 232.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 802.2 kB
  • After minification 789.9 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. ELC Roofing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 399.6 kB
  • After minification 399.4 kB
  • After compression 390.8 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 220.8 kB
  • After minification 220.8 kB
  • After compression 207.4 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. Elcroofing.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 87 (91%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ELC Roofing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 49 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

elcroofing.co.uk accessibility score

92

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

elcroofing.co.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

elcroofing.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Elcroofing.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 Elcroofing.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

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