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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

gcox.co.uk

George Cox & Sons Ltd | Civil Engineers | Highway Construction

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

269 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

Welcome to gcox.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check G Cox best content right away, or after learning these important things about gcox.co.uk

With over 65 years' experience of working in the highways and construction industry you can be assured that you are dealing with a professional organisation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gcox.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 269 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gcox.co.uk performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gcox.co.uk

269 ms

gcox.co.uk

473 ms

plyr.css

61 ms

mvf6biy.js

117 ms

app.css

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Gcox.co.uk, 6% (3 requests) were made to Abstore.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Gcox.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 68.5 kB (1%)

Content Size

8.3 MB

After Optimization

8.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gcox.co.uk main page is 8.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 37.9 kB

  • Original 49.5 kB
  • After minification 43.0 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 6.5 kB, which is 13% 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 37.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 7.7 MB
  • After minification 7.7 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. G Cox images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 29.0 kB

  • Original 529.8 kB
  • After minification 529.8 kB
  • After compression 500.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 43 B

  • Original 26.4 kB
  • After minification 26.4 kB
  • After compression 26.4 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. Gcox.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (11%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

42

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of G Cox. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gcox.co.uk

gcox.co.uk

269 ms

gcox.co.uk

gcox.co.uk

473 ms

plyr.css

plyr.css

61 ms

mvf6biy.js

mvf6biy.js

117 ms

app.css

app.css

88 ms

app.js

app.js

413 ms

js

js

89 ms

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

cookieControl-9.x.min.js

59 ms

picturefill.min.js

picturefill.min.js

31 ms

ceca.svg

ceca.svg

424 ms

chas-accredited.svg

chas-accredited.svg

520 ms

constructionline.svg

constructionline.svg

425 ms

People.jpg

People.jpg

542 ms

People%20%20(11).jpg

People%20%20(11).jpg

734 ms

People%20%20(15).jpg

People%20%20(15).jpg

739 ms

People%20%20(5).jpg

People%20%20(5).jpg

738 ms

Highways.jpg

Highways.jpg

664 ms

S278.jpg

S278.jpg

429 ms

Thumbnail.jpg

Thumbnail.jpg

506 ms

cycleway.png

cycleway.png

668 ms

Car%20Park.jpg

Car%20Park.jpg

617 ms

Paving.jpg

Paving.jpg

693 ms

Pilsworth%20Road.jpg

Pilsworth%20Road.jpg

811 ms

Canute%20Place.jpg

Canute%20Place.jpg

745 ms

Apprentices%202024.jpg

Apprentices%202024.jpg

766 ms

Stockport%20Council%201.jpg

Stockport%20Council%201.jpg

806 ms

rochdale%20Council.jpg

rochdale%20Council.jpg

814 ms

Bury%20Council%202.jpg

Bury%20Council%202.jpg

815 ms

Bolton%20Council%202.jpg

Bolton%20Council%202.jpg

821 ms

Cheshire%20East%20Council%202%20(1).jpg

Cheshire%20East%20Council%202%20(1).jpg

841 ms

Hanson%20(1).jpg

Hanson%20(1).jpg

880 ms

Tarmac.jpg

Tarmac.jpg

884 ms

Lancashire%20county%20Council.jpg

Lancashire%20county%20Council.jpg

887 ms

Merseytravel%202.jpg

Merseytravel%202.jpg

888 ms

Salford%20Council%20(1).jpg

Salford%20Council%20(1).jpg

896 ms

TfGM%20(1).jpg

TfGM%20(1).jpg

915 ms

Warrington%20Borough%20Council.jpg

Warrington%20Borough%20Council.jpg

954 ms

Wigan%20Council.jpg

Wigan%20Council.jpg

959 ms

VINCI.jpg

VINCI.jpg

963 ms

Chester%20West%20Chester%202%20(1).jpg

Chester%20West%20Chester%202%20(1).jpg

963 ms

Redrow.jpg

Redrow.jpg

971 ms

Blackpool.jpg

Blackpool.jpg

989 ms

Bam%20(1).jpg

Bam%20(1).jpg

1027 ms

willmott%20dixon%20(1).jpg

willmott%20dixon%20(1).jpg

1032 ms

Trafford%20Council.jpg

Trafford%20Council.jpg

1036 ms

ISO%20White.png

ISO%20White.png

1037 ms

SMAS%20white.png

SMAS%20white.png

1047 ms

dc.js

dc.js

25 ms

NeueHaasUnica-Regular.woff

NeueHaasUnica-Regular.woff

765 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

NeueHaasUnica-Medium.woff

NeueHaasUnica-Medium.woff

675 ms

Accessibility Review

gcox.co.uk accessibility score

85

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gcox.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gcox.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

gcox.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of G Cox. 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: