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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

sandford.ie

Sandford Group - Delivering on Your Promise. A Freight Services company, Air, Ocean, Road, Logistics, Global Food Exports

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

402 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

168 ms

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About Website

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Sandford Group delivering specialised international freight forwarding and logistics services. Based in Dublin 9, Dublin Airport, we offer Air, Ocen and Road Freight services as well as logistics and ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sandford.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 402 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sandford.ie performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.3

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sandford.ie

402 ms

sandford.ie

622 ms

js

58 ms

bootstrap.css

427 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

426 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Sandford.ie, 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (744 ms) belongs to the original domain Sandford.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 624.7 kB (27%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sandford.ie main page is 2.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 18.9 kB

  • Original 22.8 kB
  • After minification 16.2 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 6.6 kB, which is 29% 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 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 23.5 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Sandford images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 272.5 kB

  • Original 378.1 kB
  • After minification 288.0 kB
  • After compression 105.6 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 272.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 309.8 kB

  • Original 356.2 kB
  • After minification 270.9 kB
  • After compression 46.4 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. Sandford.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 309.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (65%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sandford. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sandford.ie

sandford.ie

402 ms

sandford.ie

sandford.ie

622 ms

js

js

58 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

427 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

bootstrap-responsive.css

426 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

323 ms

jcarousel.css

jcarousel.css

322 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

323 ms

style.css

style.css

469 ms

blue.css

blue.css

431 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

535 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

328 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

533 ms

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

430 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

534 ms

jquery.fancybox-media.js

jquery.fancybox-media.js

433 ms

prettify.js

prettify.js

473 ms

jquery.quicksand.js

jquery.quicksand.js

538 ms

setting.js

setting.js

539 ms

jquery.tweet.js

jquery.tweet.js

579 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

638 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.js

jquery.nivo.slider.js

639 ms

modernizr.custom.79639.js

modernizr.custom.79639.js

638 ms

jquery.ba-cond.min.js

jquery.ba-cond.min.js

643 ms

jquery.slitslider.js

jquery.slitslider.js

646 ms

animate.js

animate.js

686 ms

custom.js

custom.js

744 ms

css

css

23 ms

prettify.css

prettify.css

382 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

382 ms

custom-fonts.css

custom-fonts.css

388 ms

overwrite.css

overwrite.css

390 ms

animate.css

animate.css

536 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

87 ms

sandford-logo.png

sandford-logo.png

123 ms

Dublin-freight-services.jpg

Dublin-freight-services.jpg

321 ms

air-freight-6.jpg

air-freight-6.jpg

318 ms

ocean-freight-2.jpg

ocean-freight-2.jpg

423 ms

air-freight-3.jpg

air-freight-3.jpg

324 ms

bg-1.jpg

bg-1.jpg

214 ms

bg-2.jpg

bg-2.jpg

539 ms

air-freight_206px.jpg

air-freight_206px.jpg

321 ms

ocean-freight_206px.jpg

ocean-freight_206px.jpg

424 ms

road-freight_206px.jpg

road-freight_206px.jpg

428 ms

logistics-freight_206px.jpg

logistics-freight_206px.jpg

428 ms

GDP_Passport_Certified_Company_Logo.png

GDP_Passport_Certified_Company_Logo.png

431 ms

AEO_logo.png

AEO_logo.png

529 ms

IATA-logo.png

IATA-logo.png

530 ms

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collect

15 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

412 ms

twitterlib.js

twitterlib.js

57 ms

js

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51 ms

Accessibility Review

sandford.ie accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sandford.ie best practices score

58

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

sandford.ie SEO score

73

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Sandford.ie 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 Sandford.ie 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

sandford.ie

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