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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

hirecentres.com

Tool Hire & Equipment Hire | Plantool Hire Centres

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

346 ms

Resources Loaded

6.3 sec

Page Rendered

528 ms

hirecentres.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Hire Centres content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about hirecentres.com

Plantool Hirecentres specialise in tool hire and equipment hire for industrial, commercial and residential use across the Midlands. Click to hire today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hirecentres.com page load time and found that the first response time was 346 ms and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hirecentres.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.275

44/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hirecentres.com

346 ms

hirecentres.com

1870 ms

global.css

148 ms

highdpi.css

261 ms

responsive-tables.css

339 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (93 requests) were addressed to the original Hirecentres.com, 9% (10 requests) were made to Cdn.yoshki.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Hirecentres.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 525.7 kB (17%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hirecentres.com main page is 3.1 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 247.2 kB

  • Original 275.9 kB
  • After minification 214.9 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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 61.0 kB, which is 22% 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 247.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 130.9 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Hire Centres images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 135.8 kB

  • Original 343.5 kB
  • After minification 339.0 kB
  • After compression 207.7 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 135.8 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 80.3 kB
  • After minification 80.2 kB
  • After compression 68.4 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. Hirecentres.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.9 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (33%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

72

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hire Centres. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hirecentres.com

hirecentres.com

346 ms

hirecentres.com

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1870 ms

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global.css

148 ms

highdpi.css

highdpi.css

261 ms

responsive-tables.css

responsive-tables.css

339 ms

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370 ms

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346 ms

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357 ms

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381 ms

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379 ms

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452 ms

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464 ms

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476 ms

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488 ms

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650 ms

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702 ms

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704 ms

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714 ms

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832 ms

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53 ms

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131 ms

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149 ms

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101 ms

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594 ms

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592 ms

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568 ms

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570 ms

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1385 ms

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1387 ms

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Accessibility Review

hirecentres.com accessibility score

58

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

High

Links do not have a discernible 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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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 IDs are not unique

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

hirecentres.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

SEO Factors

hirecentres.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

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 Hirecentres.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 Hirecentres.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

hirecentres.com

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