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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 70% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

southcoast.ie

South Coast Logistics - Market Leader in International Logistics

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

320 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

469 ms

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About Website

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South Coast Logistics Ltd is a specialised logistics company servicing many industries ranging from the food to the pharmaceutical sectors.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southcoast.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 320 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southcoast.ie performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.112

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southcoast.ie

320 ms

www.southcoast.ie

1144 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

165 ms

public.css

261 ms

taptap.css

347 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Southcoast.ie, 7% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Southcoast.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 122.5 kB (23%)

Content Size

523.1 kB

After Optimization

400.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southcoast.ie main page is 523.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 268.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 67.4 kB

  • Original 81.6 kB
  • After minification 77.9 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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 67.4 kB or 83% 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

-36%

Potential reduce by 50.0 kB

  • Original 137.8 kB
  • After minification 137.7 kB
  • After compression 87.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 50.0 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 35.1 kB
  • After minification 34.8 kB
  • After compression 31.3 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. Southcoast.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.8 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (45%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 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 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

southcoast.ie

southcoast.ie

320 ms

www.southcoast.ie

www.southcoast.ie

1144 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

165 ms

public.css

public.css

261 ms

taptap.css

taptap.css

347 ms

css

css

64 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

349 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

353 ms

style.css

style.css

390 ms

ubermenu.min.css

ubermenu.min.css

366 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

370 ms

conditionizr-4.3.0.min.js

conditionizr-4.3.0.min.js

437 ms

modernizr-2.7.1.min.js

modernizr-2.7.1.min.js

439 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

546 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

469 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

468 ms

api.js

api.js

203 ms

public.js

public.js

469 ms

taptap-accordion.js

taptap-accordion.js

535 ms

xhb8dyg.js

xhb8dyg.js

335 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

203 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

648 ms

taptap.js

taptap.js

753 ms

js

js

220 ms

ubermenu.min.js

ubermenu.min.js

752 ms

recaptcha__en_gb.js

recaptcha__en_gb.js

211 ms

south-coast-truck-light.jpg

south-coast-truck-light.jpg

544 ms

sc-logo.png

sc-logo.png

275 ms

splash-text.png

splash-text.png

270 ms

waste-logistics-bg.jpg

waste-logistics-bg.jpg

271 ms

chemical-logistics-bg.jpg

chemical-logistics-bg.jpg

273 ms

food-logistics-bg.jpg

food-logistics-bg.jpg

274 ms

general-logistics-bg.jpg

general-logistics-bg.jpg

342 ms

carbon.gif

carbon.gif

343 ms

chemco.gif

chemco.gif

345 ms

glanbia.gif

glanbia.gif

343 ms

Katoe-Natie-1.png

Katoe-Natie-1.png

344 ms

gruber.gif

gruber.gif

463 ms

hoyer.gif

hoyer.gif

463 ms

huktra.gif

huktra.gif

465 ms

jan-dohmen.gif

jan-dohmen.gif

465 ms

kube.gif

kube.gif

465 ms

leeside.gif

leeside.gif

561 ms

microbio.gif

microbio.gif

560 ms

nijman.gif

nijman.gif

564 ms

tankmasters.gif

tankmasters.gif

562 ms

IDL.png

IDL.png

561 ms

Circle-K-logo.png

Circle-K-logo.png

633 ms

affiliations.png

affiliations.png

657 ms

gen_204

gen_204

63 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

63 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

396 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

492 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9.ttf

98 ms

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95 ms

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134 ms

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134 ms

p.gif

p.gif

128 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

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

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: