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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

silvertrowel.co.uk

Home | Silver Trowel

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

782 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Silvertrowel.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

silvertrowel.co.uk performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

silvertrowel.co.uk

1102 ms

jquery-ui.css

18 ms

css

33 ms

wpca-core.min.css

80 ms

wpca-automate-replace.min.css

165 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Silvertrowel.co.uk, 2% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Silvertrowel.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 223.1 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Silvertrowel.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 94.4 kB

  • Original 111.9 kB
  • After minification 111.3 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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 94.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 94.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Silver Trowel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 125.0 kB
  • After minification 125.0 kB
  • After compression 109.5 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 15.5 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 18.5 kB

  • Original 96.1 kB
  • After minification 95.9 kB
  • After compression 77.6 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. Silvertrowel.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.5 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (44%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Silver Trowel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

silvertrowel.co.uk

silvertrowel.co.uk

1102 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

18 ms

css

css

33 ms

wpca-core.min.css

wpca-core.min.css

80 ms

wpca-automate-replace.min.css

wpca-automate-replace.min.css

165 ms

wpca-frontend.min.css

wpca-frontend.min.css

249 ms

silvertrowel.co.uk.css

silvertrowel.co.uk.css

407 ms

style.css

style.css

259 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

338 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

jquery.blockUI.min.js

259 ms

add-to-cart.min.js

add-to-cart.min.js

259 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

325 ms

woocommerce.min.js

woocommerce.min.js

341 ms

sourcebuster.min.js

sourcebuster.min.js

339 ms

order-attribution.min.js

order-attribution.min.js

399 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

512 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

513 ms

silvertrowel.co.uk.js

silvertrowel.co.uk.js

572 ms

wpie-common.min.js

wpie-common.min.js

512 ms

wpca-frontend.min.js

wpca-frontend.min.js

513 ms

cart-fragments.min.js

cart-fragments.min.js

513 ms

image-1.png

image-1.png

81 ms

image.jpeg

image.jpeg

393 ms

image-300x150.png

image-300x150.png

83 ms

image-1.jpeg

image-1.jpeg

171 ms

image-2.jpeg

image-2.jpeg

132 ms

image-3.jpeg

image-3.jpeg

161 ms

image-58.jpeg

image-58.jpeg

317 ms

image-32.jpeg

image-32.jpeg

272 ms

image-35.jpeg

image-35.jpeg

361 ms

image-6-300x200.jpeg

image-6-300x200.jpeg

239 ms

dc_badge1-300x145.png

dc_badge1-300x145.png

250 ms

DCS004576.jpg

DCS004576.jpg

471 ms

Funded-by-UK-Government-Black-font.png

Funded-by-UK-Government-Black-font.png

404 ms

image-8.jpeg

image-8.jpeg

355 ms

image-7.jpeg

image-7.jpeg

396 ms

nocn-e1689601664525.png

nocn-e1689601664525.png

436 ms

DBS-Verified.jpg

DBS-Verified.jpg

440 ms

dc_badge1.png

dc_badge1.png

473 ms

Funded-by-HCC-Colour-rose-black-font.png

Funded-by-HCC-Colour-rose-black-font.png

476 ms

Skills-for-Life-Skills-Bootcamps-Black-font.png

Skills-for-Life-Skills-Bootcamps-Black-font.png

483 ms

Matrix-QM-CMYK.png

Matrix-QM-CMYK.png

517 ms

Accessibility Review

silvertrowel.co.uk accessibility score

95

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

Best Practices

silvertrowel.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

silvertrowel.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Silvertrowel.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 Silvertrowel.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

silvertrowel.co.uk

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