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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

mjballantyne.co.uk

M & J Ballantyne Ltd, House Builder Scottish Borders

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

327 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

683 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing M J Ballantyne content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mjballantyne.co.uk

A multi-disciplinary building contractor and house builder based in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. Established in 1937. House Builder Scottish Borders.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mjballantyne.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 327 ms and then it took 3.6 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

mjballantyne.co.uk performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.042

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.mjballantyne.co.uk

327 ms

sitebuilder-ltr-css-bundle.css.v2024

71 ms

sitebuilder-css-bundle.css.v2024

143 ms

sitebuilder-css-large-bundle.css.v2024

217 ms

3514f8f0-acc3-4fd5-a4ee-de9cc7add3c4.css

360 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Mjballantyne.co.uk, 58% (18 requests) were made to 40f526172369-cdn-site-media.azureedge.net and 3% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source 40f526172369-cdn-site-media.azureedge.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 117.9 kB (22%)

Content Size

545.4 kB

After Optimization

427.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mjballantyne.co.uk main page is 545.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 342.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 59.8 kB

  • Original 67.3 kB
  • After minification 47.4 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 19.9 kB, which is 30% 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 59.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 10.2 kB
  • After minification 6.7 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. Obviously, M J Ballantyne needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.6 kB or 35% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 31.7 kB

  • Original 342.4 kB
  • After minification 342.4 kB
  • After compression 310.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 125.5 kB
  • After minification 125.5 kB
  • After compression 102.6 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. Mjballantyne.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.9 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (31%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M J Ballantyne. 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 from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.mjballantyne.co.uk

www.mjballantyne.co.uk

327 ms

sitebuilder-ltr-css-bundle.css.v2024

sitebuilder-ltr-css-bundle.css.v2024

71 ms

sitebuilder-css-bundle.css.v2024

sitebuilder-css-bundle.css.v2024

143 ms

sitebuilder-css-large-bundle.css.v2024

sitebuilder-css-large-bundle.css.v2024

217 ms

3514f8f0-acc3-4fd5-a4ee-de9cc7add3c4.css

3514f8f0-acc3-4fd5-a4ee-de9cc7add3c4.css

360 ms

api.js

api.js

35 ms

js

js

66 ms

sitebuilder-js-bundle.js.v2024

sitebuilder-js-bundle.js.v2024

493 ms

css

css

32 ms

logo_wide_blue_mix.png

logo_wide_blue_mix.png

508 ms

far-away-1_2000.jpg

far-away-1_2000.jpg

697 ms

lloyds_landrover_kelso_b.jpg

lloyds_landrover_kelso_b.jpg

1046 ms

distillery-outside.jpg

distillery-outside.jpg

637 ms

close-up-2_2000.jpg

close-up-2_2000.jpg

1067 ms

street-scene-1-800w.jpg

street-scene-1-800w.jpg

550 ms

mjb_sheilascott018.jpg

mjb_sheilascott018.jpg

802 ms

image1.jpg

image1.jpg

890 ms

lib12.jpg

lib12.jpg

1738 ms

lloyds_landrover_kelso_b.jpg

lloyds_landrover_kelso_b.jpg

1081 ms

house-builder-scotland-abbotsford.jpg

house-builder-scotland-abbotsford.jpg

1197 ms

crane_banner.jpg

crane_banner.jpg

1255 ms

mjb_old_logo_1600.jpg

mjb_old_logo_1600.jpg

1367 ms

sbf_24.jpg

sbf_24.jpg

1405 ms

nhbc_24.jpg

nhbc_24.jpg

1427 ms

logo_homes_for_scotland.png

logo_homes_for_scotland.png

1525 ms

cchb_24.jpg

cchb_24.jpg

1580 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

1698 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

106 ms

ionicons.woff

ionicons.woff

248 ms

sitebuilder-css-small-bundle.css.v2024

sitebuilder-css-small-bundle.css.v2024

75 ms

sitebuilder-css-prnt-bundle.css.v2024

sitebuilder-css-prnt-bundle.css.v2024

78 ms

Accessibility Review

mjballantyne.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

mjballantyne.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

SEO Factors

mjballantyne.co.uk SEO score

97

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

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 Mjballantyne.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 Mjballantyne.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

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