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Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 43

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

gladstoneengineering.com

Gladstone Engineering | Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire | UK manufacturer of Potters wheels, pugmills, clayrollers, a complete range of pottery equipmen...

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

287 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

128 ms

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About Website

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UK manufacturers of a complete range of pottery equipment delivery world wide with online ordering. The only UK manufactures of Potters Wheels and other pottery equipment.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gladstoneengineering.com page load time and found that the first response time was 287 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gladstoneengineering.com performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gladstoneengineering.com

287 ms

www.gladstoneengineering.com

382 ms

general.css

180 ms

gladstone.css

188 ms

jquery-1.5.js

622 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Gladstoneengineering.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Gladstoneengineering.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 95.3 kB (17%)

Content Size

556.6 kB

After Optimization

461.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gladstoneengineering.com main page is 556.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 441.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 25.0 kB
  • After minification 17.9 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 7.2 kB, which is 29% 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 21.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 441.5 kB
  • After minification 418.6 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. Gladstone Engineering images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 50.1 kB

  • Original 87.1 kB
  • After minification 87.1 kB
  • After compression 37.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 50.1 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 3.0 kB
  • After minification 3.0 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. Gladstoneengineering.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (22%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

32

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gladstone Engineering. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gladstoneengineering.com

gladstoneengineering.com

287 ms

www.gladstoneengineering.com

www.gladstoneengineering.com

382 ms

general.css

general.css

180 ms

gladstone.css

gladstone.css

188 ms

jquery-1.5.js

jquery-1.5.js

622 ms

cloud-zoom.1.0.2.js

cloud-zoom.1.0.2.js

274 ms

cloud-zoom.css

cloud-zoom.css

193 ms

top.jpg

top.jpg

200 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

87 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

650 ms

button_search.jpg

button_search.jpg

129 ms

downloadcat.png

downloadcat.png

251 ms

basketbg.png

basketbg.png

87 ms

button_view.jpg

button_view.jpg

170 ms

navbg.jpg

navbg.jpg

193 ms

nav_home.jpg

nav_home.jpg

212 ms

nav_contactus.jpg

nav_contactus.jpg

254 ms

nav_products.jpg

nav_products.jpg

277 ms

nav_secondhand.jpg

nav_secondhand.jpg

289 ms

nav_specialoffers.jpg

nav_specialoffers.jpg

312 ms

nav_aboutus.jpg

nav_aboutus.jpg

334 ms

cornor1.png

cornor1.png

337 ms

cornor2.png

cornor2.png

360 ms

close.jpg

close.jpg

372 ms

categorybg.jpg

categorybg.jpg

396 ms

G76pugmill.jpg

G76pugmill.jpg

440 ms

Staffordshire.jpg

Staffordshire.jpg

432 ms

Clayroller.jpg

Clayroller.jpg

877 ms

g135.jpg

g135.jpg

749 ms

G120.jpg

G120.jpg

801 ms

G165.jpg

G165.jpg

738 ms

furniture.jpg

furniture.jpg

794 ms

G75D.jpg

G75D.jpg

1011 ms

box1top.jpg

box1top.jpg

820 ms

box1bottom.jpg

box1bottom.jpg

832 ms

box2top.jpg

box2top.jpg

876 ms

title_specialoffers.jpg

title_specialoffers.jpg

884 ms

box2bottom.jpg

box2bottom.jpg

903 ms

creditcard.jpg

creditcard.jpg

916 ms

highlands-islands.png

highlands-islands.png

975 ms

footertop.jpg

footertop.jpg

1133 ms

footerbottom.jpg

footerbottom.jpg

967 ms

bottom.jpg

bottom.jpg

986 ms

Accessibility Review

gladstoneengineering.com accessibility score

43

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gladstoneengineering.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

gladstoneengineering.com 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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Gladstoneengineering.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 Gladstoneengineering.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

gladstoneengineering.com

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