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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

lancashiregates.co.uk

Hardwood Gates, Wooden Gates, Bespoke Gates, Ormskirk, Preston, Southport, Forby | Lancashire Gates

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

229 ms

Resources Loaded

609 ms

Page Rendered

272 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Lancashire Gates content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about lancashiregates.co.uk

Lancashire Gates manufactures high quality gates from timber obtained from sustainable forests. We use traditional methods to produce gates of the finest quality. Click to visit our website.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lancashiregates.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 229 ms and then it took 881 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lancashiregates.co.uk performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lancashiregates.co.uk

229 ms

style2.css

13 ms

anylinkmenu.css

21 ms

menucontents.js

31 ms

anylinkmenu.js

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Lancashiregates.co.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (288 ms) relates to the external source Google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 44.2 kB (11%)

Content Size

417.8 kB

After Optimization

373.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lancashiregates.co.uk main page is 417.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 386.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 14.3 kB
  • After minification 11.9 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.5 kB, which is 17% 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 10.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 29.5 kB

  • Original 386.0 kB
  • After minification 356.5 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. Lancashire Gates images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 14.2 kB
  • After minification 14.2 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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 3.7 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 863 B

  • Original 3.3 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. Lancashiregates.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 863 B or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (32%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lancashire Gates. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lancashiregates.co.uk

lancashiregates.co.uk

229 ms

style2.css

style2.css

13 ms

anylinkmenu.css

anylinkmenu.css

21 ms

menucontents.js

menucontents.js

31 ms

anylinkmenu.js

anylinkmenu.js

50 ms

swfobject_modified.js

swfobject_modified.js

21 ms

css

css

34 ms

css

css

55 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

14 ms

arrow_down.png

arrow_down.png

122 ms

front2.jpg

front2.jpg

122 ms

embed

embed

288 ms

header_background.jpg

header_background.jpg

20 ms

Iroko%20gunstock%20top%20with%20metal%20spindles%20(2)-3.jpg

Iroko%20gunstock%20top%20with%20metal%20spindles%20(2)-3.jpg

18 ms

small_gate.jpg

small_gate.jpg

21 ms

Bespoke%201.jpg

Bespoke%201.jpg

14 ms

joint_chamfer.jpg

joint_chamfer.jpg

19 ms

joint_dowel_detail.jpg

joint_dowel_detail.jpg

20 ms

joint_mortise_tennon.jpg

joint_mortise_tennon.jpg

26 ms

joint_screw_pellet.jpg

joint_screw_pellet.jpg

29 ms

electrogatelogo.png

electrogatelogo.png

28 ms

limbricklogo.png

limbricklogo.png

31 ms

kJEnBuEW6A0lliaV_m88ja5Twtx8BWhtkDVmjZvM_oTZA81b.woff

kJEnBuEW6A0lliaV_m88ja5Twtx8BWhtkDVmjZvM_oTZA81b.woff

25 ms

kmKnZrc3Hgbbcjq75U4uslyuy4kn0qNZaxU.woff

kmKnZrc3Hgbbcjq75U4uslyuy4kn0qNZaxU.woff

29 ms

js

js

32 ms

Accessibility Review

lancashiregates.co.uk accessibility score

72

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

lancashiregates.co.uk best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

lancashiregates.co.uk 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lancashiregates.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Lancashiregates.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

lancashiregates.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Lancashire Gates. 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: