Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

northbuildconstruction.com

Bespoke Architectural Builders - Northbuild Construction

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

95 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

362 ms

northbuildconstruction.com screenshot

About Website

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Specializing in property refurbishments, new builds & extensions, ground works & commercial projects from design through to completion

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northbuildconstruction.com page load time and found that the first response time was 95 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northbuildconstruction.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.323

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northbuildconstruction.com

95 ms

www.northbuildconstruction.com

357 ms

bootstrap.min.css

407 ms

style.css

413 ms

default.css

322 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (71 requests) were addressed to the original Northbuildconstruction.com, 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Statcounter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Northbuildconstruction.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 190.3 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Northbuildconstruction.com main page is 3.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 31.5 kB

  • Original 37.3 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 8.0 kB, which is 21% 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 31.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Northbuild Construction images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 70.6 kB

  • Original 363.7 kB
  • After minification 363.0 kB
  • After compression 293.1 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 70.6 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 40.1 kB

  • Original 144.3 kB
  • After minification 123.3 kB
  • After compression 104.2 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. Northbuildconstruction.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40.1 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (56%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northbuild Construction. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

northbuildconstruction.com accessibility score

88

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

northbuildconstruction.com best practices score

75

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

northbuildconstruction.com SEO score

100

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

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 Northbuildconstruction.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 Northbuildconstruction.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

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