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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

theconstructionindex.com

International Construction News | The Construction Index

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

266 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

theconstructionindex.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing The Construction Index content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about theconstructionindex.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theconstructionindex.com page load time and found that the first response time was 266 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theconstructionindex.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.1 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theconstructionindex.com

266 ms

international-construction-news

645 ms

js

79 ms

adsbygoogle.js

105 ms

script.outbound-links.js

294 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Theconstructionindex.com, 96% (110 requests) were made to Theconstructionindex.co.uk and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (869 ms) relates to the external source Theconstructionindex.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 537.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

12.9 MB

After Optimization

12.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Theconstructionindex.com main page is 12.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 12.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 95.4 kB

  • Original 115.6 kB
  • After minification 108.6 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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 95.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 436.4 kB

  • Original 12.7 MB
  • After minification 12.2 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. The Construction Index images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 112.2 kB
  • After minification 112.2 kB
  • After compression 106.8 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.

Requests Breakdown

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

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

108

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Construction Index. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

theconstructionindex.com accessibility score

95

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.

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

theconstructionindex.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

theconstructionindex.com SEO score

82

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

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 Theconstructionindex.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 Theconstructionindex.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

theconstructionindex.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Construction Index. 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: