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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

metalock.co.uk

Metalock Engineering UK Limited | England | Scotland | Wales

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

263 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

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

Established in 1948, Metalock Engineering UK Ltd offers its specialist engineering services to a wide and diverse range of industries worldwide. We support the engineering industry in planned maintena...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metalock.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 263 ms 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

metalock.co.uk performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.0 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metalock.co.uk

263 ms

348 ms

metalock-engineering-uk

265 ms

css

32 ms

site.min.css

231 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Metalock.co.uk, 63% (30 requests) were made to Metalockengineering.com and 15% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (775 ms) relates to the external source Metalockengineering.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 259.9 kB (33%)

Content Size

799.4 kB

After Optimization

539.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metalock.co.uk main page is 799.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 444.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 229.2 kB

  • Original 279.8 kB
  • After minification 233.9 kB
  • After compression 50.7 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 45.9 kB, which is 16% 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 229.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 52.4 kB
  • After minification 45.0 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. Obviously, Metalock needs image optimization as it can save up to 7.4 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 444.8 kB
  • After minification 444.8 kB
  • After compression 429.0 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

-33%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 22.3 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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. Metalock.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.4 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (21%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metalock. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

metalock.co.uk

metalock.co.uk

263 ms

348 ms

metalock-engineering-uk

metalock-engineering-uk

265 ms

css

css

32 ms

site.min.css

site.min.css

231 ms

site.min.js

site.min.js

246 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

199 ms

embed

embed

303 ms

card-industries.jpg

card-industries.jpg

287 ms

card-services.jpg

card-services.jpg

228 ms

card-repairs.jpg

card-repairs.jpg

279 ms

card-about-us.jpg

card-about-us.jpg

443 ms

about-us.jpg

about-us.jpg

445 ms

metalock-uk-office.jpg

metalock-uk-office.jpg

530 ms

metalock-uk-scotland-office-sign.jpg

metalock-uk-scotland-office-sign.jpg

498 ms

metalock-engineering-uk-wales.jpg

metalock-engineering-uk-wales.jpg

552 ms

joscar-certificate-metalock-engineering-uk-limited.jpg

joscar-certificate-metalock-engineering-uk-limited.jpg

500 ms

metalock_en_uk_15ts_r073_lr2417716rep_certa_2024.jpg

metalock_en_uk_15ts_r073_lr2417716rep_certa_2024.jpg

499 ms

achilles-gas-oil-cert-2023.jpg

achilles-gas-oil-cert-2023.jpg

498 ms

cyber-essentials-plus-2024.jpg

cyber-essentials-plus-2024.jpg

581 ms

cyber-essential-certificate-240124.jpg

cyber-essential-certificate-240124.jpg

590 ms

sc-certificate-04122023.jpg

sc-certificate-04122023.jpg

582 ms

cert_uvdb_silverplus.jpg

cert_uvdb_silverplus.jpg

591 ms

cert_uvdb_audit_prd40.jpg

cert_uvdb_audit_prd40.jpg

622 ms

cert_global-energy_silver.jpg

cert_global-energy_silver.jpg

635 ms

cert_chemicals_silver.jpg

cert_chemicals_silver.jpg

668 ms

lrqa-ohsas-ssip-qms-ems-engus-ukas.jpg

lrqa-ohsas-ssip-qms-ems-engus-ukas.jpg

683 ms

zurich-orbital-welding-procedure-approval-test-certificate.png

zurich-orbital-welding-procedure-approval-test-certificate.png

690 ms

logo-ecitb.jpg

logo-ecitb.jpg

706 ms

holding.jpg

holding.jpg

704 ms

slogan.svg

slogan.svg

714 ms

chat-cta.svg

chat-cta.svg

750 ms

metalock-machines-v2.png

metalock-machines-v2.png

766 ms

metalock-laser-cladding.jpg

metalock-laser-cladding.jpg

775 ms

ai.2.min.js

ai.2.min.js

222 ms

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30 ms

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48 ms

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49 ms

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rs=ABjfnFXtxmImxNTFOPzZexykYQ5oqnCrLg

57 ms

css

css

17 ms

js

js

76 ms

m=gmeviewer_base

m=gmeviewer_base

90 ms

embed

embed

191 ms

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87 ms

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89 ms

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90 ms

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91 ms

lazy.min.js

lazy.min.js

39 ms

Accessibility Review

metalock.co.uk accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

metalock.co.uk 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

metalock.co.uk SEO score

84

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

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 Metalock.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 Metalock.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

metalock.co.uk

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