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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

northstone-ni.co.uk

Northstone (NI) Ltd | Northern Ireland | Construction | Home

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

507 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

330 ms

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About Website

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Northstone (NI) Ltd - Northern Irelands leading construction materials producer, utility chamber manufacturer and building & civil engineering.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northstone-ni.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 507 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northstone-ni.co.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.761

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northstone-ni.co.uk

507 ms

gtm.js

60 ms

website_css

163 ms

website_scripts

371 ms

css2

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Northstone-ni.co.uk, 15% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (507 ms) belongs to the original domain Northstone-ni.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 131.8 kB (15%)

Content Size

868.3 kB

After Optimization

736.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Northstone-ni.co.uk main page is 868.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 821.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 18.9 kB

  • Original 24.4 kB
  • After minification 18.5 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 5.9 kB, which is 24% 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 18.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 112.9 kB

  • Original 821.4 kB
  • After minification 708.5 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, Northstone NI needs image optimization as it can save up to 112.9 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 22.5 kB
  • After minification 22.5 kB
  • After compression 22.5 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 8 (30%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northstone NI. 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

northstone-ni.co.uk

northstone-ni.co.uk

507 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

60 ms

website_css

website_css

163 ms

website_scripts

website_scripts

371 ms

css2

css2

36 ms

slippry_css

slippry_css

286 ms

jcarousel_css

jcarousel_css

303 ms

api.js

api.js

36 ms

jcarousel_scripts

jcarousel_scripts

279 ms

slippry_scripts

slippry_scripts

288 ms

ai.0.js

ai.0.js

61 ms

toggle_close.png

toggle_close.png

73 ms

toggle_icon.png

toggle_icon.png

74 ms

telephone.png

telephone.png

74 ms

location.png

location.png

138 ms

search.png

search.png

82 ms

logoResponsive1.png

logoResponsive1.png

73 ms

logo.png

logo.png

140 ms

banner2desktop.jpg

banner2desktop.jpg

343 ms

banner1desktop.jpg

banner1desktop.jpg

406 ms

blackbg.png

blackbg.png

176 ms

farrans-hp.png

farrans-hp.png

177 ms

Farranslg.png

Farranslg.png

295 ms

Farranslgro.png

Farranslgro.png

297 ms

footerbg.png

footerbg.png

294 ms

callback.jpg

callback.jpg

295 ms

tel_footer.png

tel_footer.png

296 ms

contact_footer.png

contact_footer.png

355 ms

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46 ms

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99 ms

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138 ms

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142 ms

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139 ms

sy-loader.gif

sy-loader.gif

235 ms

Accessibility Review

northstone-ni.co.uk accessibility score

92

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.

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

northstone-ni.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

northstone-ni.co.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Northstone-ni.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 Northstone-ni.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 Northstone NI. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: