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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk

Chimney Sweep Devon, Torquay, Hodgsons Chimney Sweeps

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

217 ms

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

383 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Hodgson Chimney Sweep content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk

Hodgsons Chimney sweeps Torquay are family run chimney sweeping and testing company in Devon and Somerset since 1964, with very high standards and expertise.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 217 ms and then it took 7.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,190 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.098

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk

217 ms

www.hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk

1440 ms

exl6hik.js

120 ms

style.min.css

94 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

181 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk, 11% (12 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 8% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 120.9 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk main page is 1.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 509.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 87.8 kB

  • Original 106.9 kB
  • After minification 104.0 kB
  • After compression 19.1 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 87.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 294.5 kB
  • After minification 283.7 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. Hodgson Chimney Sweep images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

  • Original 509.0 kB
  • After minification 509.0 kB
  • After compression 489.3 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 264.9 kB
  • After minification 264.5 kB
  • After compression 262.2 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. Hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (60%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hodgson Chimney Sweep. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk

hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk

217 ms

www.hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk

www.hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk

1440 ms

exl6hik.js

exl6hik.js

120 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

94 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

181 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

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245 ms

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246 ms

woocommerce.css

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254 ms

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lightbox.min.css

250 ms

hint.min.css

hint.min.css

257 ms

perfect-scrollbar.min.css

perfect-scrollbar.min.css

264 ms

custom-theme.css

custom-theme.css

325 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

329 ms

frontend.css

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335 ms

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424 ms

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341 ms

font-awesome.min.css

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349 ms

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408 ms

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513 ms

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521 ms

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577 ms

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580 ms

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589 ms

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16 ms

Accessibility Review

hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk accessibility score

94

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Hodgsonchimneysweep.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 Hodgsonchimneysweep.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

hodgsonchimneysweep.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hodgson Chimney Sweep. 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: