Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

start-technology.co.uk

Managed IT Support & Business Telephone Systems | Shrewsbury

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

639 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

222 ms

start-technology.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Based in Shrewsbury, we provide businesses with Managed IT Support Services, Consultancy and Telephone Systems. We cover Shropshire, West Midlands and beyond.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Start-technology.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 639 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

start-technology.co.uk performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

start-technology.co.uk

639 ms

www.start-technology.co.uk

1079 ms

tentblogger-social-widget.css

232 ms

core.css

530 ms

style-silver.css

242 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Start-technology.co.uk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Start-technology.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 183.6 kB (32%)

Content Size

569.3 kB

After Optimization

385.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Start-technology.co.uk main page is 569.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 319.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 19.3 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 15.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 319.6 kB
  • After minification 303.7 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. Start Technology images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 93.8 kB

  • Original 160.1 kB
  • After minification 159.4 kB
  • After compression 66.3 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 93.8 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 58.1 kB

  • Original 68.9 kB
  • After minification 52.0 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. Start-technology.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 58.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (27%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Start Technology. 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 JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

start-technology.co.uk accessibility score

95

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

start-technology.co.uk best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

start-technology.co.uk SEO score

89

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

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 Start-technology.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 Start-technology.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Start Technology. 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: