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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

wdclose.co.uk

Specialists In Structural Steel Fabrications · WD Close & Sons

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

529 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

482 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing WD Close content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about wdclose.co.uk

Based in Newcastle Upon Tyne and established in 1983, WD Close are experts in structural steel fabrications.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wdclose.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 529 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wdclose.co.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,670 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.144

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.wdclose.co.uk

529 ms

vlb7fpk.css

83 ms

main.css

94 ms

style.min.css

180 ms

styles.css

248 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Wdclose.co.uk, 13% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (580 ms) belongs to the original domain Wdclose.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 63.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wdclose.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 950.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 55.7 kB

  • Original 69.6 kB
  • After minification 65.2 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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. 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 55.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 950.7 kB
  • After minification 944.0 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. WD Close images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 268.8 kB
  • After minification 268.8 kB
  • After compression 267.7 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 230 B

  • Original 36.2 kB
  • After minification 36.2 kB
  • After compression 35.9 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. Wdclose.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (48%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WD Close. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.wdclose.co.uk

www.wdclose.co.uk

529 ms

vlb7fpk.css

vlb7fpk.css

83 ms

main.css

main.css

94 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

180 ms

styles.css

styles.css

248 ms

js

js

107 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

302 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

302 ms

index.js

index.js

302 ms

index.js

index.js

303 ms

jquery-latest.js

jquery-latest.js

33 ms

main-min.js

main-min.js

303 ms

api.js

api.js

52 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

331 ms

index.js

index.js

349 ms

slick-min.js

slick-min.js

418 ms

5.1.0

5.1.0

96 ms

p.css

p.css

28 ms

icon-telephone-white.svg

icon-telephone-white.svg

214 ms

icon-email-white.svg

icon-email-white.svg

215 ms

icon-arrow-red.svg

icon-arrow-red.svg

216 ms

Mid-Water-Arches-800x600.jpg

Mid-Water-Arches-800x600.jpg

317 ms

temp-001-800x600.jpg

temp-001-800x600.jpg

329 ms

temp-006-800x600.jpg

temp-006-800x600.jpg

360 ms

temp-004-800x600.jpg

temp-004-800x600.jpg

269 ms

temp-005-800x600.jpg

temp-005-800x600.jpg

371 ms

temp-008-800x600.jpg

temp-008-800x600.jpg

374 ms

post-temp-002-800x600.jpg

post-temp-002-800x600.jpg

358 ms

icon-location-white.svg

icon-location-white.svg

397 ms

Integrated-deck-for-an-offshore-pipe-laying-vessel-800x600.jpg

Integrated-deck-for-an-offshore-pipe-laying-vessel-800x600.jpg

580 ms

Marine-ancillary-fabrications-a-collaborative-project-800x600.jpg

Marine-ancillary-fabrications-a-collaborative-project-800x600.jpg

444 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

36 ms

d

d

3 ms

d

d

13 ms

d

d

18 ms

d

d

18 ms

home-location-800x600.jpg

home-location-800x600.jpg

324 ms

icon-carousel-nav-white.svg

icon-carousel-nav-white.svg

249 ms

Accessibility Review

wdclose.co.uk accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

wdclose.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

wdclose.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

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 Wdclose.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 Wdclose.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

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