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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

southcoast.ie

Home - South Coast Logistics - Market Leader in International Logistics

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

177 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

176 ms

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About Website

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South Coast Logistics is specialised in logistics, the food sector, consultancy, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, and dry loads.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southcoast.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 177 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

southcoast.ie performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.111

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southcoast.ie

177 ms

www.southcoast.ie

480 ms

public.css

96 ms

taptap.css

190 ms

css

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Southcoast.ie, 8% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (518 ms) belongs to the original domain Southcoast.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.5 kB (11%)

Content Size

625.9 kB

After Optimization

554.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southcoast.ie main page is 625.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 268.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 64.6 kB

  • Original 79.1 kB
  • After minification 75.4 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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. 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 64.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 268.6 kB
  • After minification 267.2 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. South Coast images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 255.6 kB
  • After minification 255.6 kB
  • After compression 253.8 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

-17%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 22.6 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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. Southcoast.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.8 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (40%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of South Coast. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

southcoast.ie

southcoast.ie

177 ms

www.southcoast.ie

www.southcoast.ie

480 ms

public.css

public.css

96 ms

taptap.css

taptap.css

190 ms

css

css

34 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

257 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

259 ms

style.css

style.css

269 ms

conditionizr-4.3.0.min.js

conditionizr-4.3.0.min.js

267 ms

modernizr-2.7.1.min.js

modernizr-2.7.1.min.js

278 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

376 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

341 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

340 ms

api.js

api.js

46 ms

public.js

public.js

355 ms

taptap-accordion.js

taptap-accordion.js

357 ms

xhb8dyg.js

xhb8dyg.js

154 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

34 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

370 ms

taptap.js

taptap.js

433 ms

recaptcha__en_gb.js

recaptcha__en_gb.js

77 ms

south-coast-truck-light.jpg

south-coast-truck-light.jpg

311 ms

sc-logo.png

sc-logo.png

130 ms

splash-text.png

splash-text.png

130 ms

waste-logistics-bg.jpg

waste-logistics-bg.jpg

130 ms

chemical-logistics-bg.jpg

chemical-logistics-bg.jpg

130 ms

food-logistics-bg.jpg

food-logistics-bg.jpg

129 ms

general-logistics-bg.jpg

general-logistics-bg.jpg

218 ms

carbon.gif

carbon.gif

213 ms

chemco.gif

chemco.gif

210 ms

glanbia.gif

glanbia.gif

210 ms

Katoe-Natie-1.png

Katoe-Natie-1.png

213 ms

gruber.gif

gruber.gif

294 ms

hoyer.gif

hoyer.gif

295 ms

huktra.gif

huktra.gif

303 ms

jan-dohmen.gif

jan-dohmen.gif

301 ms

kube.gif

kube.gif

309 ms

leeside.gif

leeside.gif

377 ms

microbio.gif

microbio.gif

378 ms

nijman.gif

nijman.gif

390 ms

tankmasters.gif

tankmasters.gif

390 ms

IDL.png

IDL.png

402 ms

Circle-K-logo.png

Circle-K-logo.png

402 ms

affiliations.png

affiliations.png

461 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

66 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

518 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9AMP6lQ.ttf

86 ms

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65 ms

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76 ms

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279 ms

p.gif

p.gif

87 ms

Accessibility Review

southcoast.ie accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

ARIA toggle fields do not have accessible names

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

southcoast.ie best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

southcoast.ie SEO score

93

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 Southcoast.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 Southcoast.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

southcoast.ie

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