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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

oldcastlemasonry.com

Masonry Products, Block, Brick | Anchor a subsidiary of Oldcastle APG, a CRH company

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

17 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

319 ms

oldcastlemasonry.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to oldcastlemasonry.com homepage info - get ready to check Oldcastle Masonry best content right away, or after learning these important things about oldcastlemasonry.com

Oldcastle Masonry supplies a wide range of Architectural Masonry, Brick and Concrete Products including Masonry Units, Brick Veneer and Concrete Blocks.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Oldcastlemasonry.com page load time and found that the first response time was 17 ms and then it took 1.9 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

oldcastlemasonry.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,590 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.941

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

oldcastlemasonry.com

17 ms

www.echelonmasonry.com

161 ms

gtm.js

112 ms

style.css

44 ms

style.min.css

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Oldcastlemasonry.com, 45% (52 requests) were made to Echelonmasonry.com and 12% (14 requests) were made to Market.bimsmith.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (535 ms) relates to the external source Market.bimsmith.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.8 kB (0%)

Content Size

729.4 kB

After Optimization

726.5 kB

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Oldcastlemasonry.com main page is 729.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 409.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 409.1 kB
  • After minification 407.5 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. Oldcastle Masonry images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 251.6 kB
  • After minification 251.6 kB
  • After compression 250.4 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 68.6 kB
  • After minification 68.6 kB
  • After compression 68.6 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. Oldcastlemasonry.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (74%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Oldcastle Masonry. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

oldcastlemasonry.com

oldcastlemasonry.com

17 ms

www.echelonmasonry.com

www.echelonmasonry.com

161 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

112 ms

style.css

style.css

44 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

63 ms

front-flex.min.css

front-flex.min.css

58 ms

slick.css

slick.css

52 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

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57 ms

send-results-ajax.js

send-results-ajax.js

50 ms

color-ajax-filter.js

color-ajax-filter.js

142 ms

resources-ajax-filter.js

resources-ajax-filter.js

58 ms

education-ajax-filter.js

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71 ms

news-ajax-filter.js

news-ajax-filter.js

76 ms

ce-popup-ajax.js

ce-popup-ajax.js

81 ms

request-sample-ajax.js

request-sample-ajax.js

124 ms

request-product-ajax.js

request-product-ajax.js

88 ms

compare-products-ajax-filter.js

compare-products-ajax-filter.js

95 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

55 ms

pinit.js

pinit.js

55 ms

ScrollMagic.min.js

ScrollMagic.min.js

65 ms

debug.addIndicators.js

debug.addIndicators.js

93 ms

tinysort.js

tinysort.js

101 ms

basic.min.css

basic.min.css

104 ms

theme-ie11.min.css

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132 ms

theme.min.css

theme.min.css

129 ms

api.js

api.js

67 ms

smush-lazy-load.min.js

smush-lazy-load.min.js

137 ms

app.js

app.js

130 ms

styling.min.js

styling.min.js

174 ms

dom-ready.min.js

dom-ready.min.js

175 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

175 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

175 ms

a11y.min.js

a11y.min.js

175 ms

jquery.json.min.js

jquery.json.min.js

184 ms

gravityforms.min.js

gravityforms.min.js

176 ms

placeholders.jquery.min.js

placeholders.jquery.min.js

177 ms

utils.min.js

utils.min.js

184 ms

vendor-theme.min.js

vendor-theme.min.js

184 ms

scripts-theme.min.js

scripts-theme.min.js

329 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

185 ms

css2

css2

72 ms

30727

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287 ms

app.js

app.js

183 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

37 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

35 ms

search.svg

search.svg

135 ms

close.svg

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133 ms

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info-circle.svg

169 ms

arrow.svg

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132 ms

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170 ms

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169 ms

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172 ms

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171 ms

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216 ms

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216 ms

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217 ms

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icon-catalog.png

216 ms

icon-linkedin.svg

icon-linkedin.svg

216 ms

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204 ms

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214 ms

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icon-facebook.svg

272 ms

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130 ms

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158 ms

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171 ms

pinit_main.js

pinit_main.js

8 ms

anchor

anchor

92 ms

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132 ms

tt_backwards_sans_regular-webfont.woff

tt_backwards_sans_regular-webfont.woff

134 ms

image1.jpg

image1.jpg

63 ms

styles__ltr.css

styles__ltr.css

5 ms

recaptcha__en.js

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12 ms

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55 ms

webworker.js

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83 ms

logo_48.png

logo_48.png

44 ms

slick.css

slick.css

67 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

68 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

110 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

90 ms

runtime-es2015.js

runtime-es2015.js

90 ms

runtime-es5.js

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127 ms

polyfills-es5.js

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182 ms

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220 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

219 ms

main-es2015.js

main-es2015.js

535 ms

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main-es5.js

326 ms

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20 ms

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104 ms

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103 ms

prev.png

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104 ms

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104 ms

collect

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13 ms

List

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177 ms

Units

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147 ms

sign-up

sign-up

137 ms

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styles.css

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26 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

27 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

55 ms

runtime.js

runtime.js

81 ms

polyfills.js

polyfills.js

108 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

167 ms

main.js

main.js

202 ms

big-logo.webp

big-logo.webp

165 ms

spinner-green.gif

spinner-green.gif

146 ms

30727

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73 ms

IsManufacturerTypeGeneric

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64 ms

CheckProductPresent

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60 ms

GetProductFilesDownloadLinks

GetProductFilesDownloadLinks

159 ms

styles.css

styles.css

52 ms

Accessibility Review

oldcastlemasonry.com accessibility score

97

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

oldcastlemasonry.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

oldcastlemasonry.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Oldcastlemasonry.com 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 Oldcastlemasonry.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

oldcastlemasonry.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Oldcastle Masonry. 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: