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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk

Concrete Blocks | Block Paving | Building Blocks | Thomas Armstrong (Concrete Blocks) Ltd

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

358 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

193 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 358 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk

358 ms

thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk

365 ms

www.thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk

828 ms

site_global.css

263 ms

master_a-master.css

273 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (836 ms) belongs to the original domain Thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 257.3 kB (57%)

Content Size

448.4 kB

After Optimization

191.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk main page is 448.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 286.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 254.7 kB

  • Original 286.0 kB
  • After minification 210.8 kB
  • After compression 31.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 75.2 kB, which is 26% 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 254.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 206 B

  • Original 4.2 kB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Thomas Armstrong Concrete Blocks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 126.0 kB
  • After minification 126.0 kB
  • After compression 124.1 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 444 B

  • Original 32.2 kB
  • After minification 32.2 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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. Thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (64%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thomas Armstrong Concrete Blocks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk

thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk

358 ms

thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk

thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk

365 ms

www.thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk

www.thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk

828 ms

site_global.css

site_global.css

263 ms

master_a-master.css

master_a-master.css

273 ms

index.css

index.css

364 ms

js

js

84 ms

require.js

require.js

94 ms

js

js

72 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

89 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

127 ms

searchicon.jpg

searchicon.jpg

128 ms

socialfacebook.png

socialfacebook.png

128 ms

footerlogobackground.png

footerlogobackground.png

130 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

355 ms

35852a_d_0.woff

35852a_d_0.woff

449 ms

35852a_b_0.woff

35852a_b_0.woff

642 ms

35852a_9_0.woff

35852a_9_0.woff

836 ms

35852a_4_0.woff

35852a_4_0.woff

608 ms

35852a_2_0.woff

35852a_2_0.woff

641 ms

35852a_0_0.woff

35852a_0_0.woff

616 ms

35852a_5_0.woff

35852a_5_0.woff

716 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

museconfig.js

museconfig.js

320 ms

museutils.js

museutils.js

93 ms

whatinput.js

whatinput.js

93 ms

webpro.js

webpro.js

91 ms

musewpslideshow.js

musewpslideshow.js

93 ms

jquery.museoverlay.js

jquery.museoverlay.js

132 ms

touchswipe.js

touchswipe.js

180 ms

jquery.watch.js

jquery.watch.js

178 ms

jquery.musemenu.js

jquery.musemenu.js

180 ms

musewpdisclosure.js

musewpdisclosure.js

181 ms

jquery.scrolleffects.js

jquery.scrolleffects.js

193 ms

jquery.museresponsive.js

jquery.museresponsive.js

206 ms

Accessibility Review

thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk accessibility score

77

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.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 Thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.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

thomasarmstrongconcreteblocks.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Thomas Armstrong Concrete Blocks. 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: