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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

lbsilicasand.co.uk

L.B. Silica Sand Ltd - Supplier Of High Grade Silica Sand

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

400 ms

lbsilicasand.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit lbsilicasand.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date L B Silica Sand content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about lbsilicasand.co.uk

L. B. Silica Sand Ltd are a worldwide bulk supplier of high grade silica sand. We offer a high quality, friendly service and competitve prices.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lbsilicasand.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lbsilicasand.co.uk performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.116

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.lbsilicasand.co.uk

1115 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

80 ms

litebox.css

152 ms

style.css

231 ms

css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Lbsilicasand.co.uk, 9% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 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 Lbsilicasand.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.0 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lbsilicasand.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 29.2 kB

  • Original 37.9 kB
  • After minification 33.9 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 4.1 kB, which is 11% 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 29.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. L B Silica Sand images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 316.1 kB
  • After minification 316.1 kB
  • After compression 297.1 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

-28%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 26.2 kB
  • After minification 26.2 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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. Lbsilicasand.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.4 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (38%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of L B Silica Sand. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.lbsilicasand.co.uk

www.lbsilicasand.co.uk

1115 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

80 ms

litebox.css

litebox.css

152 ms

style.css

style.css

231 ms

css

css

18 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

237 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

159 ms

picturefill.min.js

picturefill.min.js

158 ms

eu-cookie-law.js

eu-cookie-law.js

156 ms

images-loaded.min.js

images-loaded.min.js

228 ms

litebox.min.js

litebox.min.js

262 ms

api.js

api.js

46 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

308 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

309 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

312 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

313 ms

gfplaceholderaddon.js

gfplaceholderaddon.js

359 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

62 ms

LB-silica-on-light.gif

LB-silica-on-light.gif

116 ms

icons.svg

icons.svg

116 ms

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GOPR0068-2-1200x675.jpg

388 ms

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198 ms

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200 ms

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143 ms

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190 ms

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237 ms

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598 ms

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330 ms

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330 ms

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329 ms

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330 ms

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350 ms

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354 ms

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383 ms

quarry-bg.jpg

quarry-bg.jpg

546 ms

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quarry.jpg

502 ms

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question.png

432 ms

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59 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

410 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

68 ms

collect

collect

90 ms

close.png

close.png

86 ms

js

js

63 ms

Accessibility Review

lbsilicasand.co.uk accessibility score

80

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

lbsilicasand.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

lbsilicasand.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Lbsilicasand.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 Lbsilicasand.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

lbsilicasand.co.uk

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