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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

stsgroup.ie

STS Group

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

299 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

307 ms

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About Website

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Specialist Technical Services is dedicated to being the best and most cost efficient provider of electrical and mechanical engineering as well as instrumentation services in Ireland, the UK and Europe...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stsgroup.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 299 ms and then it took 3.9 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

stsgroup.ie performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.127

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.7 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stsgroup.ie

299 ms

stsgroup.ie

1595 ms

main.css

588 ms

ionicons.css

518 ms

remodal.css

351 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Stsgroup.ie, 7% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Stsgroup.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (33%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stsgroup.ie main page is 4.7 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 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 44.7 kB
  • After minification 31.7 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.0 kB, which is 29% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 37.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 262.0 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. STS Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 582.4 kB

  • Original 755.9 kB
  • After minification 567.1 kB
  • After compression 173.5 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 582.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 671.5 kB

  • Original 735.8 kB
  • After minification 594.5 kB
  • After compression 64.3 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. Stsgroup.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 671.5 kB or 91% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (45%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of STS Group. 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

stsgroup.ie

stsgroup.ie

299 ms

stsgroup.ie

stsgroup.ie

1595 ms

main.css

main.css

588 ms

ionicons.css

ionicons.css

518 ms

remodal.css

remodal.css

351 ms

remodal-default-theme.css

remodal-default-theme.css

328 ms

magnific-popup.css

magnific-popup.css

374 ms

animate.css

animate.css

537 ms

lightgallery.min.css

lightgallery.min.css

566 ms

js

js

59 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

883 ms

what-input.js

what-input.js

541 ms

foundation.js

foundation.js

1054 ms

remodal.min.js

remodal.min.js

713 ms

wow.min.js

wow.min.js

702 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.js

jquery.magnific-popup.js

797 ms

lightgallery-all.min.js

lightgallery-all.min.js

757 ms

main.bundle.js

main.bundle.js

969 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

48 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

47 ms

sts-logo-red.svg

sts-logo-red.svg

285 ms

sts-logo-scroll.svg

sts-logo-scroll.svg

322 ms

services.svg

services.svg

351 ms

careers.svg

careers.svg

390 ms

cog.svg

cog.svg

412 ms

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1620_STS_OCT16_web_1000_668_66_c1.jpg

493 ms

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datacentres_480_360_66_c1.jpg

522 ms

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1507_STS_OCT16_web_1000_668_66_c1.jpg

602 ms

HV_Substation.png

HV_Substation.png

636 ms

Airport_DAA.png

Airport_DAA.png

1106 ms

oil-gas_480_360_66_c1.jpg

oil-gas_480_360_66_c1.jpg

610 ms

sts-logo-white.svg

sts-logo-white.svg

622 ms

ionicons.ttf

ionicons.ttf

910 ms

uij6ojb.js

uij6ojb.js

190 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

js

js

56 ms

d

d

24 ms

d

d

56 ms

p.gif

p.gif

21 ms

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1620_STS_OCT16_web_1000_668_66_c1.jpg

370 ms

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datacentres_480_360_66_c1.jpg

293 ms

1507_STS_OCT16_web_1000_668_66_c1.jpg

1507_STS_OCT16_web_1000_668_66_c1.jpg

276 ms

HV_Substation.png

HV_Substation.png

314 ms

Airport_DAA.png

Airport_DAA.png

539 ms

oil-gas_480_360_66_c1.jpg

oil-gas_480_360_66_c1.jpg

449 ms

Accessibility Review

stsgroup.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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

Best Practices

stsgroup.ie best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

stsgroup.ie SEO score

92

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

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 Stsgroup.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 Stsgroup.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

stsgroup.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of STS Group. 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: