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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

oldcastlesurfaces.com

CRH is North America’s largest manufacturer of building materials

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

354 ms

Resources Loaded

660 ms

Page Rendered

261 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Oldcastlesurfaces.com page load time and found that the first response time was 354 ms and then it took 921 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

oldcastlesurfaces.com performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.154

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.oldcastle.com

354 ms

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

5 ms

styles.css

34 ms

jquery.cookie.js

35 ms

product_target.js

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Oldcastlesurfaces.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (354 ms) relates to the external source Oldcastle.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 155.5 kB (22%)

Content Size

716.4 kB

After Optimization

560.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Oldcastlesurfaces.com main page is 716.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 590.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 10.3 kB
  • After minification 8.7 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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 1.6 kB, which is 15% 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 8.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 68.5 kB

  • Original 590.6 kB
  • After minification 522.2 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, Oldcastlesurfaces needs image optimization as it can save up to 68.5 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 66.5 kB

  • Original 100.7 kB
  • After minification 96.3 kB
  • After compression 34.2 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 66.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 14.7 kB
  • After minification 11.6 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Oldcastlesurfaces.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (15%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Oldcastlesurfaces. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.oldcastle.com

www.oldcastle.com

354 ms

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

5 ms

styles.css

styles.css

34 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

35 ms

product_target.js

product_target.js

33 ms

home.js

home.js

36 ms

oldcastle_logo3.png

oldcastle_logo3.png

21 ms

arrow_sm.png

arrow_sm.png

22 ms

search.png

search.png

22 ms

home_bg_residential_2.jpg

home_bg_residential_2.jpg

35 ms

home_bg_infrastructure_2.jpg

home_bg_infrastructure_2.jpg

35 ms

home_bg_commercial_2.jpg

home_bg_commercial_2.jpg

36 ms

home_button_residential_off.png

home_button_residential_off.png

21 ms

home_button_infrastructure_off.png

home_button_infrastructure_off.png

20 ms

home_button_commercial_off.png

home_button_commercial_off.png

21 ms

Our-Story.jpg

Our-Story.jpg

21 ms

nav_button_customers.jpg

nav_button_customers.jpg

21 ms

nav_button_csi.jpg

nav_button_csi.jpg

22 ms

fb24.png

fb24.png

21 ms

vimeo24.png

vimeo24.png

28 ms

linkin24.png

linkin24.png

27 ms

Accessibility Review

oldcastlesurfaces.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

oldcastlesurfaces.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

oldcastlesurfaces.com SEO score

91

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Oldcastlesurfaces.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 Oldcastlesurfaces.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

oldcastlesurfaces.com

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