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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

lestercast.co.uk

Home - Lestercast Investment Casting Services

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

271 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

860 ms

lestercast.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Lestercast is a leading UK Investment Casting manufacturer which has been supplying major OEM's and suppliers across all industries for the last 50 years. We

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lestercast.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 271 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lestercast.co.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

53/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,230 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.504

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lestercast.co.uk

271 ms

lestercast.co.uk

409 ms

front.min.css

86 ms

js_composer.min.css

252 ms

style.min.css

398 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Lestercast.co.uk, 9% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Lestercast.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 219.6 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lestercast.co.uk main page is 3.5 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. 80% 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 146.4 kB

  • Original 176.0 kB
  • After minification 175.4 kB
  • After compression 29.6 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 146.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 38.2 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Lestercast images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 498.7 kB
  • After minification 498.5 kB
  • After compression 463.9 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 291 B

  • Original 184.0 kB
  • After minification 183.8 kB
  • After compression 183.7 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. Lestercast.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (47%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lestercast. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lestercast.co.uk

lestercast.co.uk

271 ms

lestercast.co.uk

lestercast.co.uk

409 ms

front.min.css

front.min.css

86 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

252 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

398 ms

gravityforms.min.css

gravityforms.min.css

246 ms

style.css

style.css

246 ms

front.min.js

front.min.js

247 ms

js

js

76 ms

js

js

107 ms

css

css

43 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

324 ms

us.core.min.js

us.core.min.js

678 ms

api.js

api.js

50 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

329 ms

lm50agnwgz

lm50agnwgz

303 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

244 ms

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803031025

804 ms

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CpwpQ72bgdA

384 ms

Lestercast-Logo-2022-white-2.png

Lestercast-Logo-2022-white-2.png

273 ms

50-Years.png

50-Years.png

648 ms

Accreditations-Lestercast-1-e1679497441682.png

Accreditations-Lestercast-1-e1679497441682.png

350 ms

Investment-Casting.jpg

Investment-Casting.jpg

350 ms

NQA_ISO9001_CMYK.jpg

NQA_ISO9001_CMYK.jpg

801 ms

NQA_IATF16949_CMYK.jpg

NQA_IATF16949_CMYK.jpg

773 ms

F4N_LOGO_RGB-scaled-e1629108374484.jpg

F4N_LOGO_RGB-scaled-e1629108374484.jpg

353 ms

Machining.jpg

Machining.jpg

757 ms

Flying-B-Production.jpg

Flying-B-Production.jpg

645 ms

portcollect_13-5154-016ed-scaled-e1631715517415.jpg

portcollect_13-5154-016ed-scaled-e1631715517415.jpg

758 ms

Investment-Casting-CMM-Lestercast.jpg

Investment-Casting-CMM-Lestercast.jpg

762 ms

Accreditations-Mobile.jpg

Accreditations-Mobile.jpg

757 ms

laptop.png

laptop.png

769 ms

Lestercast-CDP-Sample-file-1.png

Lestercast-CDP-Sample-file-1.png

992 ms

Stock-holding-facilities.jpg

Stock-holding-facilities.jpg

992 ms

IMG_3684-scaled-e1629111655515.jpg

IMG_3684-scaled-e1629111655515.jpg

769 ms

Stainless-Steel-casting-Lestercast-2.jpg

Stainless-Steel-casting-Lestercast-2.jpg

993 ms

Lestercast-Customer-Map.jpg

Lestercast-Customer-Map.jpg

992 ms

Accreditations.png

Accreditations.png

993 ms

1.MAKEUK_MEMBER_RGB_FINAL-RGB-for-digital-use-scaled-e1630502034675.jpg

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1008 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

895 ms

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fa-light-300.woff

894 ms

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fa-solid-900.woff

822 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

821 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

63 ms

tracker.js

tracker.js

127 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

7 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

9 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

44 ms

base.js

base.js

88 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

162 ms

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72 ms

embed.js

embed.js

45 ms

id

id

198 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

170 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

170 ms

api.js

api.js

92 ms

Accessibility Review

lestercast.co.uk accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

lestercast.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

lestercast.co.uk SEO score

100

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

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 Lestercast.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 Lestercast.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

lestercast.co.uk

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