Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

norsemensafety.co.uk

Norsemen Safety & Industrial Supplies | Welding | Belfast

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

213 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

948 ms

norsemensafety.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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

Norsemen Welding & Safety is a Belfast based one stop shop for all your Welding & Safety Equipment requirements in Northern Ireland & the UK.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Norsemensafety.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 213 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

norsemensafety.co.uk performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

norsemensafety.co.uk

213 ms

jquery.min.js

142 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

152 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

126 ms

woo-multi-currency.min.js

135 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Norsemensafety.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Norsemensafety.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 924.2 kB (31%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Norsemensafety.co.uk main page is 3.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 778.9 kB

  • Original 881.7 kB
  • After minification 867.7 kB
  • After compression 102.8 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 778.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 145.2 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Norsemen Safety images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 183 B

  • Original 49.2 kB
  • After minification 49.2 kB
  • After compression 49.0 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (9%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Norsemen Safety. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

norsemensafety.co.uk accessibility score

89

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

norsemensafety.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

norsemensafety.co.uk SEO score

96

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 Norsemensafety.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 Norsemensafety.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

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