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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

southerndrain.com

Southern Drain Services Ltd | Drain Clearing in Essex, London and Kent

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

6.4 sec

Page Rendered

421 ms

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About Website

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Southern Drain Services are drainage contractors that specialise in Blocked Drains, Drain Cleaning, Clearing and Repair across Essex, Kent and London.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southerndrain.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southerndrain.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

68/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.181

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.9 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.southerndrain.com

1762 ms

autoptimize_62eb34f0f65bb3d13ad072a46b2a509b.css

585 ms

css

41 ms

css

61 ms

css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Southerndrain.com, 24% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 18% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Southerndrain.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 400.2 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southerndrain.com main page is 2.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 42.8 kB

  • Original 53.8 kB
  • After minification 53.8 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 42.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 353.4 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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, Southern Drain needs image optimization as it can save up to 353.4 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 171.1 kB
  • After minification 171.1 kB
  • After compression 167.4 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 206 B

  • Original 267.0 kB
  • After minification 267.0 kB
  • After compression 266.8 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. Southerndrain.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (40%)

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern Drain. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.southerndrain.com

www.southerndrain.com

1762 ms

autoptimize_62eb34f0f65bb3d13ad072a46b2a509b.css

autoptimize_62eb34f0f65bb3d13ad072a46b2a509b.css

585 ms

css

css

41 ms

css

css

61 ms

css

css

66 ms

css

css

64 ms

js

js

72 ms

lazysizes.min.js

lazysizes.min.js

108 ms

autoptimize_06cfab99cb02c8e52e81761c37bf536d.js

autoptimize_06cfab99cb02c8e52e81761c37bf536d.js

599 ms

AdobeStock_89168419-4928x2464.jpeg

AdobeStock_89168419-4928x2464.jpeg

391 ms

S6uyw4BMUTPHjxAwWw.ttf

S6uyw4BMUTPHjxAwWw.ttf

18 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh7USSwaPHA.ttf

S6u9w4BMUTPHh7USSwaPHA.ttf

27 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwaPHA.ttf

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwaPHA.ttf

87 ms

fontello.woff

fontello.woff

287 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

136 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

239 ms

sds1-logo.png

sds1-logo.png

475 ms

Accessibility Review

southerndrain.com accessibility score

79

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

southerndrain.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

southerndrain.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Southerndrain.com 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 Southerndrain.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

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