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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

waterside-training.co.uk

Waterside Training | Specialist training provider

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

230 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

814 ms

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About Website

Welcome to waterside-training.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Waterside Training best content right away, or after learning these important things about waterside-training.co.uk

Waterside Training Limited based in St Helens, Merseyside is a specialist training provider, delivering high quality engineering and manufacturing

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waterside-training.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 230 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 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

waterside-training.co.uk performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

74/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

waterside-training.co.uk

230 ms

waterside-training.co.uk

280 ms

www.waterside-training.co.uk

545 ms

iln4apz.css

101 ms

slick.css

271 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Waterside-training.co.uk, 7% (4 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Waterside-training.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 57.1 kB (6%)

Content Size

891.0 kB

After Optimization

834.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Waterside-training.co.uk main page is 891.0 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. Images take 813.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 56.8 kB

  • Original 69.1 kB
  • After minification 66.4 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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. 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 56.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 813.4 kB
  • After minification 813.4 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. Waterside Training images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 655 B
  • After minification 655 B
  • After compression 638 B

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

-3%

Potential reduce by 256 B

  • Original 7.9 kB
  • After minification 7.9 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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. Waterside-training.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (15%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

46

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Waterside Training. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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230 ms

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280 ms

www.waterside-training.co.uk

www.waterside-training.co.uk

545 ms

iln4apz.css

iln4apz.css

101 ms

slick.css

slick.css

271 ms

style.css

style.css

284 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

275 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

275 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

15 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

274 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

271 ms

js

js

68 ms

p.css

p.css

25 ms

facebook.svg

facebook.svg

247 ms

twitter.svg

twitter.svg

243 ms

instagram.svg

instagram.svg

261 ms

youtube.svg

youtube.svg

253 ms

linkedin.svg

linkedin.svg

260 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

243 ms

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504 ms

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497 ms

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499 ms

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496 ms

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518 ms

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507 ms

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759 ms

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746 ms

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768 ms

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829 ms

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995 ms

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998 ms

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1502 ms

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1513 ms

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1521 ms

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1499 ms

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1525 ms

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1508 ms

Accessibility Review

waterside-training.co.uk accessibility score

76

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

waterside-training.co.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

waterside-training.co.uk SEO score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Waterside-training.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 Waterside-training.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

waterside-training.co.uk

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