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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

gilmour-architects.com

Architects Northern Ireland | Residential Architects | Ireland

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

765 ms

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Architects Northern Ireland - experienced residential architects covering NI & Ireland inc. Belfast, Lisburn, Hillsborough & Dublin, Louth & Meath

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gilmour-architects.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gilmour-architects.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.754

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gilmour-architects.com

1876 ms

formidableforms.css

252 ms

style.min.css

258 ms

style.css

176 ms

css2

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Gilmour-architects.com, 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Gilmour-architects.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 496.5 kB (7%)

Content Size

7.0 MB

After Optimization

6.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gilmour-architects.com main page is 7.0 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 6.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 45.8 kB
  • After minification 45.8 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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. 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 34.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 458.7 kB

  • Original 6.8 MB
  • After minification 6.4 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. Gilmour Architects images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 30 B

  • Original 54.1 kB
  • After minification 54.1 kB
  • After compression 54.1 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 3.0 kB

  • Original 47.5 kB
  • After minification 47.5 kB
  • After compression 44.5 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. Gilmour-architects.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (42%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gilmour Architects. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gilmour-architects.com

gilmour-architects.com

1876 ms

formidableforms.css

formidableforms.css

252 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

258 ms

style.css

style.css

176 ms

css2

css2

56 ms

slick.css

slick.css

188 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

184 ms

animate.css

animate.css

190 ms

custom.css

custom.css

340 ms

b5fa6afcff.js

b5fa6afcff.js

55 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

454 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

353 ms

js

js

65 ms

navigation.js

navigation.js

336 ms

wow.min.js

wow.min.js

393 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

398 ms

functions.js

functions.js

510 ms

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New-Logo.jpg

317 ms

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205 ms

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393 ms

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205 ms

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208 ms

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771 ms

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428 ms

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592 ms

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509 ms

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510 ms

Accessibility Review

gilmour-architects.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

gilmour-architects.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

gilmour-architects.com SEO score

86

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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