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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

richardcarterltd.co.uk

The original hand tool manufacturer. Celebrating 275 years in UK manufacturing | Richard Carter

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

288 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

706 ms

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About Website

Visit richardcarterltd.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Richard Carter Ltd content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about richardcarterltd.co.uk

Few British companies can trace their traditions as far back as Carters, the original hand tool manufacturers who are the 2nd oldest family-run firm in Yorkshire.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Richardcarterltd.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 288 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

richardcarterltd.co.uk performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

richardcarterltd.co.uk

288 ms

richardcarterltd.co.uk

455 ms

styles.css

183 ms

two0gfa.js

66 ms

global.js

368 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Richardcarterltd.co.uk, 5% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Richardcarterltd.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 224.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

5.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Richardcarterltd.co.uk main page is 5.6 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 5.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 46.9 kB

  • Original 67.1 kB
  • After minification 64.5 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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 46.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 145.5 kB

  • Original 5.4 MB
  • After minification 5.3 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. Richard Carter Ltd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 32.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (6%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Richard Carter Ltd. 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

richardcarterltd.co.uk

richardcarterltd.co.uk

288 ms

richardcarterltd.co.uk

richardcarterltd.co.uk

455 ms

styles.css

styles.css

183 ms

two0gfa.js

two0gfa.js

66 ms

global.js

global.js

368 ms

shocksafe_header.jpg

shocksafe_header.jpg

361 ms

manmade_header.jpg

manmade_header.jpg

654 ms

endurance_header_high_res-new.jpg

endurance_header_high_res-new.jpg

834 ms

perennial_header_new.jpg

perennial_header_new.jpg

746 ms

wood_turning_header_alt.jpg

wood_turning_header_alt.jpg

666 ms

wood_turning.svg

wood_turning.svg

337 ms

homepage-open-socket.jpg

homepage-open-socket.jpg

512 ms

homepage-solid-socket.jpg

homepage-solid-socket.jpg

456 ms

homepage-poly.jpg

homepage-poly.jpg

550 ms

homepage-rake.jpg

homepage-rake.jpg

605 ms

homepage-open-punners-post-.jpg

homepage-open-punners-post-.jpg

644 ms

homepage-crowbar.jpg

homepage-crowbar.jpg

697 ms

homepage-scrapers.jpg

homepage-scrapers.jpg

735 ms

homepage-network.jpg

homepage-network.jpg

743 ms

homepage-manure-fork.jpg

homepage-manure-fork.jpg

760 ms

gully-bowls.jpg

gully-bowls.jpg

788 ms

homepage-fencing.jpg

homepage-fencing.jpg

828 ms

homepage-slashers.jpg

homepage-slashers.jpg

834 ms

homepage-garden-digging.jpg

homepage-garden-digging.jpg

839 ms

homepage-cultivating.jpg

homepage-cultivating.jpg

853 ms

homepage-shearlopper.jpg

homepage-shearlopper.jpg

881 ms

homepage-garden-rakes.jpg

homepage-garden-rakes.jpg

921 ms

homepage-jnr.jpg

homepage-jnr.jpg

924 ms

homepage-striking.jpg

homepage-striking.jpg

929 ms

homepage-handles.jpg

homepage-handles.jpg

934 ms

homepage-other.jpg

homepage-other.jpg

944 ms

manmade_static.jpg

manmade_static.jpg

1062 ms

manmade.png

manmade.png

1012 ms

manmade-home2.png

manmade-home2.png

1015 ms

manmade-home1.png

manmade-home1.png

1018 ms

endurance_header.jpg

endurance_header.jpg

1113 ms

endurance.png

endurance.png

1035 ms

edurance-home1.png

edurance-home1.png

1105 ms

edurance-home2.png

edurance-home2.png

1111 ms

perennial-home1.png

perennial-home1.png

1110 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

67 ms

d

d

18 ms

d

d

19 ms

richardcarter.woff

richardcarter.woff

816 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

perennial-home2.png

perennial-home2.png

808 ms

js

js

78 ms

perennial-home3.png

perennial-home3.png

844 ms

p.gif

p.gif

33 ms

wood_turning_header.jpg

wood_turning_header.jpg

749 ms

wood_turning-white.svg

wood_turning-white.svg

697 ms

wood-turning-home2.png

wood-turning-home2.png

663 ms

wood-turning-home1.png

wood-turning-home1.png

615 ms

wood-turning-home3.png

wood-turning-home3.png

610 ms

brochure_bg.jpg

brochure_bg.jpg

736 ms

GL1A0298-RT.jpg

GL1A0298-RT.jpg

638 ms

man-made-2.jpg

man-made-2.jpg

696 ms

print.css

print.css

97 ms

Accessibility Review

richardcarterltd.co.uk accessibility score

76

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

richardcarterltd.co.uk 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

SEO Factors

richardcarterltd.co.uk SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Richardcarterltd.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 Richardcarterltd.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

richardcarterltd.co.uk

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