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Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

shepherd-distribution.co.uk

A Founding Member of the Palletline Network - Shepherd Distribution Services

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

976 ms

Page Rendered

162 ms

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About Website

Visit shepherd-distribution.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Shepherd Distribution content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about shepherd-distribution.co.uk

Offering full, part load and groupage services throughout the UK and Europe, we have an enviable reputation for excellent service across a wide customer base.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shepherd-distribution.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shepherd-distribution.co.uk performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shepherd-distribution.co.uk

241 ms

jquery-1.4.3.min.js

209 ms

jkmegamenu.js

185 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.js

177 ms

normal.css

191 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Shepherd-distribution.co.uk, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (485 ms) belongs to the original domain Shepherd-distribution.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 51.8 kB (9%)

Content Size

590.5 kB

After Optimization

538.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shepherd-distribution.co.uk main page is 590.5 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 520.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 13.9 kB
  • After minification 11.9 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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 1.9 kB, which is 14% 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 10.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 32.1 kB

  • Original 520.2 kB
  • After minification 488.1 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. Shepherd Distribution images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 53.5 kB
  • After minification 53.5 kB
  • After compression 45.2 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 8.3 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 2.9 kB
  • After minification 2.9 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Shepherd-distribution.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 kB or 41% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shepherd Distribution. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

shepherd-distribution.co.uk

shepherd-distribution.co.uk

241 ms

jquery-1.4.3.min.js

jquery-1.4.3.min.js

209 ms

jkmegamenu.js

jkmegamenu.js

185 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.js

jquery.lightbox-0.5.js

177 ms

normal.css

normal.css

191 ms

jkmegamenu.css

jkmegamenu.css

187 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

181 ms

ga.js

ga.js

35 ms

topbanner1.png

topbanner1.png

200 ms

pagebanner-home-b.jpg

pagebanner-home-b.jpg

286 ms

SD_75th_logo_silver.png

SD_75th_logo_silver.png

284 ms

recuiting-banner-small.jpg

recuiting-banner-small.jpg

192 ms

subtitle.png

subtitle.png

103 ms

palletline.png

palletline.png

104 ms

infopanelpic.png

infopanelpic.png

208 ms

5395803235_0c9f3daa86_s.jpg

5395803235_0c9f3daa86_s.jpg

207 ms

findoutmore.jpg

findoutmore.jpg

291 ms

pdfpanelpic.png

pdfpanelpic.png

296 ms

moty.jpg

moty.jpg

308 ms

fors-bronze.jpg

fors-bronze.jpg

408 ms

fors-silver.jpg

fors-silver.jpg

386 ms

fors-gold.jpg

fors-gold.jpg

390 ms

mta-winner-2012.jpg

mta-winner-2012.jpg

485 ms

supporting-bluebell-wood.png

supporting-bluebell-wood.png

402 ms

bullet_right.png

bullet_right.png

396 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

shepherd-distribution.co.uk accessibility score

59

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.

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

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

shepherd-distribution.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

shepherd-distribution.co.uk SEO score

58

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

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 Shepherd-distribution.co.uk 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 Shepherd-distribution.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

shepherd-distribution.co.uk

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