Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

alphamanufacturing.co.uk

Alpha Manufacturing | Award-Winning Sheet Metal Fabrication Services

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

300 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

623 ms

alphamanufacturing.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Welcome to Alpha Manufacturing - an award-winning, UK based custom metal fabrication company offering quality, cost effective fabrication services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alphamanufacturing.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 300 ms and then it took 3.7 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

alphamanufacturing.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,560 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alphamanufacturing.co.uk

300 ms

www.alphamanufacturing.co.uk

741 ms

style.min.css

463 ms

style.min.css

467 ms

addtoany.min.css

238 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Alphamanufacturing.co.uk, 9% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (825 ms) belongs to the original domain Alphamanufacturing.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (24%)

Content Size

6.7 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Alphamanufacturing.co.uk main page is 6.7 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. 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 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 201.9 kB

  • Original 239.6 kB
  • After minification 202.7 kB
  • After compression 37.8 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 36.9 kB, which is 15% 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 201.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Alpha Manufacturing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 983.4 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 1.1 MB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 274.7 kB

  • Original 370.9 kB
  • After minification 367.8 kB
  • After compression 96.2 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. Alphamanufacturing.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 274.7 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (37%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alpha Manufacturing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alphamanufacturing.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

High

Links do not have a discernible 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

alphamanufacturing.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

alphamanufacturing.co.uk SEO score

84

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 Alphamanufacturing.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 Alphamanufacturing.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

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