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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

laidlaw.co.uk

Laidlaw - Ironmongery, Security, Balustrades & Integrated Doorsets

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

541 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

217 ms

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About Website

Welcome to laidlaw.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Laidlaw best content right away, or after learning these important things about laidlaw.co.uk

Laidlaw is the UK’s largest and most experienced independent supplier of ironmongery, access control systems, integrated doorsets, and balustrades.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Laidlaw.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 541 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

laidlaw.co.uk performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

laidlaw.co.uk

541 ms

style.min.css

89 ms

styles.css

175 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

244 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

243 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Laidlaw.co.uk, 11% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (665 ms) belongs to the original domain Laidlaw.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 68.2 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Laidlaw.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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 43.9 kB
  • After minification 42.1 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 34.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Laidlaw images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 200.8 kB
  • After minification 200.8 kB
  • After compression 190.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 52.8 kB
  • After minification 52.8 kB
  • After compression 49.8 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. Laidlaw.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (39%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Laidlaw. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

laidlaw.co.uk

laidlaw.co.uk

541 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

89 ms

styles.css

styles.css

175 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

owl.carousel.min.css

244 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

owl.theme.default.min.css

243 ms

aos.css

aos.css

243 ms

app-0cd243c67a.css

app-0cd243c67a.css

329 ms

cookieconsent.css

cookieconsent.css

42 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

28 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

242 ms

vue

vue

69 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

258 ms

js

js

80 ms

aos.js

aos.js

326 ms

app-e56bb5a2f6.js

app-e56bb5a2f6.js

497 ms

5016a31c8c.js

5016a31c8c.js

36 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

325 ms

cookieconsent.js

cookieconsent.js

55 ms

css

css

30 ms

laidlaw-logo.png

laidlaw-logo.png

106 ms

laidlaw-balustrades.png

laidlaw-balustrades.png

106 ms

laidlaw-access-control.png

laidlaw-access-control.png

187 ms

laidlaw-architectural-ironmongery.png

laidlaw-architectural-ironmongery.png

106 ms

laidlaw-integrated-doorsets.png

laidlaw-integrated-doorsets.png

106 ms

ironmongery-and-more.png

ironmongery-and-more.png

195 ms

slide-image-1-1024x505.jpg

slide-image-1-1024x505.jpg

344 ms

BRB-Darker-1024x512.jpg

BRB-Darker-1024x512.jpg

285 ms

iStock-532547510-1-e1524570771402-1024x788.jpg

iStock-532547510-1-e1524570771402-1024x788.jpg

346 ms

doorscrop2-1024x669.jpg

doorscrop2-1024x669.jpg

408 ms

Intergrated-security.jpg

Intergrated-security.jpg

343 ms

Laidlaw-access-controls-white-2.png

Laidlaw-access-controls-white-2.png

286 ms

Culyers-Yard-Structural-glass-hybrid-system-9.jpg

Culyers-Yard-Structural-glass-hybrid-system-9.jpg

583 ms

laidlaw-balustrades-logo.png

laidlaw-balustrades-logo.png

357 ms

5499802RH_-copy-2.jpg

5499802RH_-copy-2.jpg

587 ms

laidlaw-architectural-ironmongery-300x187.png

laidlaw-architectural-ironmongery-300x187.png

432 ms

Hastings-Coll-10.jpg

Hastings-Coll-10.jpg

515 ms

Laidlaw-Integrated-Doorsets-Logo-02-300x226.png

Laidlaw-Integrated-Doorsets-Logo-02-300x226.png

444 ms

Website_v2_footerlogo.png

Website_v2_footerlogo.png

493 ms

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517 ms

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531 ms

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578 ms

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599 ms

FSC_C139834_Promotional_with_text_Portrait_GreenOnWhite_tm_U5hQ7K-201x300.png

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604 ms

adsa.jpg

adsa.jpg

613 ms

ironmongeryandmore_logo-300x65.jpg

ironmongeryandmore_logo-300x65.jpg

665 ms

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27 ms

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26 ms

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49 ms

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62 ms

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63 ms

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63 ms

5016a31c8c.css

5016a31c8c.css

19 ms

font-awesome-css.min.css

font-awesome-css.min.css

11 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

20 ms

Accessibility Review

laidlaw.co.uk accessibility score

91

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

laidlaw.co.uk 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

laidlaw.co.uk SEO score

96

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 Laidlaw.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 Laidlaw.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

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