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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

gilkes.com

Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon Ltd | Hydro & Pump Specialists

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

619 ms

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About Website

Visit gilkes.com now to see the best up-to-date Gilkes content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about gilkes.com

Gilkes delivers innovative single source solutions to small hydropower and high horsepower engine markets. For further information, enquire with us today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gilkes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3.6 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

gilkes.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,800 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.527

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gilkes.com

1197 ms

styles.css

255 ms

40fd012b-da34-4a1d-bae2-8ed8f1e2e17f.css

55 ms

css

24 ms

colorbox.css

255 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Gilkes.com, 11% (6 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Gilkes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 206.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gilkes.com main page is 2.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 17.4 kB
  • After minification 15.4 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 2.1 kB, which is 12% 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 12.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Gilkes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 138.6 kB

  • Original 235.2 kB
  • After minification 201.6 kB
  • After compression 96.6 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 138.6 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 42.9 kB

  • Original 52.2 kB
  • After minification 42.7 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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. Gilkes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (39%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gilkes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gilkes.com

gilkes.com

1197 ms

styles.css

styles.css

255 ms

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40fd012b-da34-4a1d-bae2-8ed8f1e2e17f.css

55 ms

css

css

24 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

255 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

jquery.bxslider.css

172 ms

modernizr-2.0.6.min.js

modernizr-2.0.6.min.js

254 ms

Triggers.js

Triggers.js

170 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

25 ms

video-js.css

video-js.css

15 ms

video.js

video.js

347 ms

jcycle.js

jcycle.js

435 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

273 ms

Fat.js

Fat.js

271 ms

validation.js

validation.js

358 ms

banner.js

banner.js

271 ms

banner.asp

banner.asp

356 ms

global.js

global.js

357 ms

jquery.bxslider.min.js

jquery.bxslider.min.js

357 ms

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icon1.jpg

247 ms

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248 ms

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249 ms

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246 ms

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245 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

314 ms

top-banner1.jpg

top-banner1.jpg

818 ms

arrow.jpg

arrow.jpg

334 ms

banner2.jpg

banner2.jpg

663 ms

banner3.jpg

banner3.jpg

577 ms

banner4.jpg

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915 ms

banner5.jpg

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782 ms

chat.png

chat.png

416 ms

products-banner.jpg

products-banner.jpg

829 ms

border-red.jpg

border-red.jpg

667 ms

arrow-red.jpg

arrow-red.jpg

752 ms

global-banner.jpg

global-banner.jpg

932 ms

services-banner.jpg

services-banner.jpg

933 ms

bullet.jpg

bullet.jpg

871 ms

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903 ms

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8 ms

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generate_slider_json.asp

1076 ms

ga.js

ga.js

12 ms

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23 ms

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86 ms

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86 ms

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89 ms

controls-larger.png

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108 ms

Accessibility Review

gilkes.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gilkes.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gilkes.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

gilkes.com

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