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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

midlandgas.co.uk

Gas Installation | Gas Servicing and Repairs | Central Heating

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

559 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

173 ms

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About Website

Visit midlandgas.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Midland Gas content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about midlandgas.co.uk

Midland Gas, specialises in gas installation, gas boiler servicing, gas repairs and central heating Installation services in West Midlands. For gas boiler installation and service call us 24/7 on: 012...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Midlandgas.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 559 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

midlandgas.co.uk performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

68/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

midlandgas.co.uk

559 ms

midlandgas_css.css

389 ms

ddsmoothmenu.js

412 ms

jquery.min.js

507 ms

function.js

418 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Midlandgas.co.uk, 27% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Midlandgas.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 52.3 kB (16%)

Content Size

336.2 kB

After Optimization

284.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Midlandgas.co.uk main page is 336.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 202.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.1 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 20.0 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 5.1 kB, which is 20% 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 19.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 202.7 kB
  • After minification 193.4 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. Midland Gas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 102.1 kB
  • After minification 102.1 kB
  • After compression 80.7 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 21.4 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 6.3 kB
  • After minification 6.3 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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. Midlandgas.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.4 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (53%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Midland Gas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

midlandgas.co.uk

midlandgas.co.uk

559 ms

midlandgas_css.css

midlandgas_css.css

389 ms

ddsmoothmenu.js

ddsmoothmenu.js

412 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

507 ms

function.js

function.js

418 ms

modernizr.custom.js

modernizr.custom.js

439 ms

html5.js

html5.js

444 ms

jquery-1.7.min.js

jquery-1.7.min.js

946 ms

jquery.tweet.js

jquery.tweet.js

820 ms

script.js

script.js

829 ms

myriadpro-it.woff

myriadpro-it.woff

737 ms

ga.js

ga.js

43 ms

logo.png

logo.png

722 ms

socialicon.png

socialicon.png

721 ms

navbg.png

navbg.png

730 ms

navhover.png

navhover.png

634 ms

silderbtn.png

silderbtn.png

488 ms

mainbg.png

mainbg.png

1142 ms

leftborder.png

leftborder.png

1049 ms

banner-installation.jpg

banner-installation.jpg

1078 ms

yearwarranty.jpg

yearwarranty.jpg

1160 ms

boilerservicing.jpg

boilerservicing.jpg

1088 ms

customercare.jpg

customercare.jpg

1155 ms

safegas.jpg

safegas.jpg

1402 ms

rightformbg.png

rightformbg.png

1432 ms

captcha.asp

captcha.asp

1495 ms

captcha.asp

captcha.asp

1536 ms

captcha.asp

captcha.asp

1563 ms

captcha.asp

captcha.asp

1589 ms

captcha.asp

captcha.asp

1761 ms

callnow.jpg

callnow.jpg

1778 ms

icon-reason.gif

icon-reason.gif

1850 ms

logo-worcester.png

logo-worcester.png

1884 ms

logo-vaillant.png

logo-vaillant.png

1918 ms

logo-baxi.png

logo-baxi.png

1959 ms

logo-alpha.png

logo-alpha.png

2115 ms

logo-keston.png

logo-keston.png

2139 ms

quotes-icon.gif

quotes-icon.gif

2209 ms

quotesicon.gif

quotesicon.gif

2245 ms

socialicon-foot.png

socialicon-foot.png

2270 ms

logo-footer.png

logo-footer.png

2303 ms

twitter-footerlogo.png

twitter-footerlogo.png

2479 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

53 ms

down.gif

down.gif

2429 ms

banner-welcome.jpg

banner-welcome.jpg

2697 ms

myriadpro-semiboldit.woff

myriadpro-semiboldit.woff

2742 ms

myriadpro-regular.woff

myriadpro-regular.woff

2762 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

182 ms

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99 ms

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timeline.e108540dddc96e4b707f5cf259a582d7.js

27 ms

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midlandgas

66 ms

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28 ms

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60 ms

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105 ms

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87 ms

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129 ms

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131 ms

_buildManifest.js

_buildManifest.js

141 ms

_ssgManifest.js

_ssgManifest.js

141 ms

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27 ms

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53 ms

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32 ms

Accessibility Review

midlandgas.co.uk accessibility score

55

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

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

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

midlandgas.co.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

midlandgas.co.uk SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Midlandgas.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 Midlandgas.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

midlandgas.co.uk

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