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Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

meldavis.com

Narrowboat Shell Builders for the English Canals — Mel Davis Boatbuilders.

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

589 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

481 ms

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About Website

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Narrowboat shells & hull builders for the English canal system. British built bespoke steel narrowboats and canal boats of all and any design: traditional, cruiser, tug style, Woolwich/Northwich repli...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Meldavis.com page load time and found that the first response time was 589 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

meldavis.com performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.137

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

meldavis.com

589 ms

www.meldavis.com

268 ms

default.css

88 ms

gallery.js

170 ms

events.js

164 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Meldavis.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (589 ms) belongs to the original domain Meldavis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.5 kB (8%)

Content Size

60.0 kB

After Optimization

55.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Meldavis.com main page is 60.0 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 52.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 5.2 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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 850 B, which is 14% 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 4.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 180 B

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.7 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. Mel Davis images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 300 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 797 B

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. Meldavis.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 300 B or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (27%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mel Davis. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

meldavis.com

meldavis.com

589 ms

www.meldavis.com

www.meldavis.com

268 ms

default.css

default.css

88 ms

gallery.js

gallery.js

170 ms

events.js

events.js

164 ms

ImFader2.js

ImFader2.js

166 ms

RSStprinter.js

RSStprinter.js

173 ms

news.inc

news.inc

165 ms

mdbb.png

mdbb.png

91 ms

rule1.gif

rule1.gif

158 ms

sig.png

sig.png

159 ms

loz.png

loz.png

158 ms

md_01.jpg

md_01.jpg

175 ms

md_02.jpg

md_02.jpg

165 ms

Accessibility Review

meldavis.com accessibility score

65

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

meldavis.com best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

meldavis.com SEO score

62

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Meldavis.com 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 Meldavis.com 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

meldavis.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mel Davis. 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: