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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

harpendenblockpaving.co.uk

Driveways & Patio Paving in Harpenden & St Albans | Harpenden Block Paving

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

523 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Harpendenblockpaving.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 199 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

harpendenblockpaving.co.uk performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,440 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.088

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

harpendenblockpaving.co.uk

199 ms

www.harpendenblockpaving.co.uk

1074 ms

style.min.css

24 ms

ctf-styles.min.css

47 ms

master.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Harpendenblockpaving.co.uk, 5% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Harpendenblockpaving.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 139.2 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Harpendenblockpaving.co.uk main page is 1.3 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 982.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 77.6 kB

  • Original 91.5 kB
  • After minification 80.1 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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 11.4 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 77.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 27.3 kB

  • Original 982.5 kB
  • After minification 955.2 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. Harpenden Block Paving images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

  • Original 169.1 kB
  • After minification 169.1 kB
  • After compression 135.9 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 33.2 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 34.3 kB
  • After minification 34.3 kB
  • After compression 33.2 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. Harpendenblockpaving.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (40%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Harpenden Block Paving. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

harpendenblockpaving.co.uk

harpendenblockpaving.co.uk

199 ms

www.harpendenblockpaving.co.uk

www.harpendenblockpaving.co.uk

1074 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

24 ms

ctf-styles.min.css

ctf-styles.min.css

47 ms

master.css

master.css

39 ms

js

js

125 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

36 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

jquery.fancybox.min.css

55 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

50 ms

forms-front.css

forms-front.css

47 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

46 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

46 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

47 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

372 ms

parsley.min.js

parsley.min.js

116 ms

forms-front.js

forms-front.js

54 ms

production.min.js

production.min.js

115 ms

production.min.js

production.min.js

111 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

jquery.fancybox.min.js

145 ms

ctf-scripts.min.js

ctf-scripts.min.js

112 ms

float.js

float.js

114 ms

float.css

float.css

149 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

22 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

95 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

35 ms

Potential-Hero-1334x650.jpeg

Potential-Hero-1334x650.jpeg

532 ms

guarantee-bg.jpg

guarantee-bg.jpg

38 ms

why-choose-us-bg.jpg

why-choose-us-bg.jpg

468 ms

cta-1-bg-480x400.jpg

cta-1-bg-480x400.jpg

33 ms

cta-2-bg-480x400.jpg

cta-2-bg-480x400.jpg

39 ms

lato-light-webfont.woff

lato-light-webfont.woff

452 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

89 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

12 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

style.css

style.css

115 ms

dist.css

dist.css

95 ms

dist.js

dist.js

103 ms

summary.json

summary.json

90 ms

summary.json

summary.json

89 ms

reviewsio-logo.svg

reviewsio-logo.svg

54 ms

marshalls-register.png

marshalls-register.png

26 ms

accredit-natural-paving.jpg

accredit-natural-paving.jpg

25 ms

always-green-logo.jpg

always-green-logo.jpg

25 ms

Regional-Award-Winner-Banner-2020-21-1024x299.png

Regional-Award-Winner-Banner-2020-21-1024x299.png

25 ms

b21-480x270.jpeg

b21-480x270.jpeg

24 ms

walls-1-e1618305851591-480x270.jpeg

walls-1-e1618305851591-480x270.jpeg

25 ms

IMG_4932-e1618304233778-480x270.jpeg

IMG_4932-e1618304233778-480x270.jpeg

42 ms

garden-landscaping-bucket-bg-480x270.jpg

garden-landscaping-bucket-bg-480x270.jpg

33 ms

patios04-480x480.jpg

patios04-480x480.jpg

43 ms

patios08-480x480.jpg

patios08-480x480.jpg

30 ms

garden04-480x480.jpg

garden04-480x480.jpg

42 ms

b21-480x480.jpeg

b21-480x480.jpeg

41 ms

walls-1-e1618305851591-480x480.jpeg

walls-1-e1618305851591-480x480.jpeg

42 ms

IMG_4932-e1618304233778-480x480.jpeg

IMG_4932-e1618304233778-480x480.jpeg

46 ms

garden08-480x480.jpg

garden08-480x480.jpg

49 ms

IMG_4976-480x480.jpeg

IMG_4976-480x480.jpeg

51 ms

driveways08-480x480.jpg

driveways08-480x480.jpg

53 ms

landscaping08-480x480.jpg

landscaping08-480x480.jpg

51 ms

landscaping04-480x480.jpg

landscaping04-480x480.jpg

47 ms

driveways04-480x480.jpg

driveways04-480x480.jpg

55 ms

10-year-guarantee.png

10-year-guarantee.png

56 ms

best-driveway-award.png

best-driveway-award.png

70 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

68 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

70 ms

instagram.png

instagram.png

67 ms

adtrak-logo-white.svg

adtrak-logo-white.svg

67 ms

Accessibility Review

harpendenblockpaving.co.uk accessibility score

84

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

harpendenblockpaving.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

harpendenblockpaving.co.uk SEO score

90

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

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 Harpendenblockpaving.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 Harpendenblockpaving.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

harpendenblockpaving.co.uk

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