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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

sheargoldltd.com

Welcome to ShearGold Ltd | Specialist Procurement & Sourcing Organisation

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

183 ms

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About Website

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Established in 1991, ShearGold Ltd has grown to become a progressive global company with a key focus on innovation, initiative and creativity.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sheargoldltd.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 2.5 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

sheargoldltd.com performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sheargoldltd.com

1054 ms

royalslider.css

96 ms

sheargold-ltd.css

155 ms

jquery.min.js

8 ms

jquery.royalslider.min.js

232 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Sheargoldltd.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Sheargoldltd.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 723.4 kB (22%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sheargoldltd.com main page is 3.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 17.0 kB
  • After minification 15.7 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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 14.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 693.3 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Obviously, Shear Gold Ltd needs image optimization as it can save up to 693.3 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 14.7 kB

  • Original 141.7 kB
  • After minification 141.7 kB
  • After compression 127.0 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

-30%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 4.7 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. Sheargoldltd.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (29%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shear Gold 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 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sheargoldltd.com

sheargoldltd.com

1054 ms

royalslider.css

royalslider.css

96 ms

sheargold-ltd.css

sheargold-ltd.css

155 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

8 ms

jquery.royalslider.min.js

jquery.royalslider.min.js

232 ms

images-jquery-ms.js

images-jquery-ms.js

171 ms

master-slider-ms.js

master-slider-ms.js

171 ms

masterslider.css

masterslider.css

172 ms

style.css

style.css

189 ms

ms-autoheight.css

ms-autoheight.css

234 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

310 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

jquery.easing.min.js

235 ms

masterslider.min.js

masterslider.min.js

321 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

74 ms

header-background.png

header-background.png

188 ms

logo-spacer-left.png

logo-spacer-left.png

79 ms

sheargold-ltd-logo-v1.png

sheargold-ltd-logo-v1.png

80 ms

logo-spacer-right.png

logo-spacer-right.png

80 ms

menu-background.png

menu-background.png

81 ms

main-banner-background.png

main-banner-background.png

79 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

156 ms

main-content-background-01.png

main-content-background-01.png

156 ms

company-tab-hover.png

company-tab-hover.png

156 ms

company-tab.png

company-tab.png

234 ms

tab-shadow-bottom.png

tab-shadow-bottom.png

157 ms

services-tab-hover.png

services-tab-hover.png

307 ms

services-tab.png

services-tab.png

384 ms

industries-tab-hover.png

industries-tab-hover.png

234 ms

industries-tab.png

industries-tab.png

236 ms

contact-us-tab-hover.png

contact-us-tab-hover.png

280 ms

contact-us-tab.png

contact-us-tab.png

311 ms

9001-ukas-logo.jpg

9001-ukas-logo.jpg

619 ms

sheargold-ltd-logo-footer-detail-v1.png

sheargold-ltd-logo-footer-detail-v1.png

313 ms

ccl-logo.png

ccl-logo.png

372 ms

loading-2.gif

loading-2.gif

384 ms

welcome-banner.png

welcome-banner.png

619 ms

global-sourcing-banner.png

global-sourcing-banner.png

702 ms

procurement-banner.png

procurement-banner.png

743 ms

warehousing-banner.png

warehousing-banner.png

841 ms

logistics-banner.png

logistics-banner.png

765 ms

distribution-banner.png

distribution-banner.png

773 ms

gilr35w-webfont.woff

gilr35w-webfont.woff

697 ms

collect

collect

26 ms

js

js

65 ms

Accessibility Review

sheargoldltd.com accessibility score

81

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

sheargoldltd.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sheargoldltd.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Sheargoldltd.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 Sheargoldltd.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

sheargoldltd.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Shear Gold Ltd. 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: