Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

gladepestcontrol.co.uk

Pest Control Watford | St Albans | Bedford | Luton - Glade Pest Control

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

452 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

421 ms

gladepestcontrol.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit gladepestcontrol.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Glade Pest Control content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about gladepestcontrol.co.uk

we are your locally run family pest control company. Glade Pest Control cover the whole of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Bedford, Luton, St Albans, Watford and all the surrounding areas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gladepestcontrol.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 452 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gladepestcontrol.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.764

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gladepestcontrol.co.uk

452 ms

styles.php

444 ms

mobi-v2.php

275 ms

tablet-v2.php

274 ms

lightbox.js

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Gladepestcontrol.co.uk, 21% (18 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 17% (15 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (891 ms) relates to the external source Cms.pm.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 385.0 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

698.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Gladepestcontrol.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 731.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 21.4 kB
  • After minification 21.4 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 15.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 107.0 kB

  • Original 731.5 kB
  • After minification 624.5 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. Obviously, Glade Pest Control needs image optimization as it can save up to 107.0 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 199.9 kB

  • Original 255.6 kB
  • After minification 189.8 kB
  • After compression 55.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 199.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 62.5 kB

  • Original 75.3 kB
  • After minification 59.1 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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. Gladepestcontrol.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 62.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (48%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glade Pest Control. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gladepestcontrol.co.uk accessibility score

75

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

gladepestcontrol.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

gladepestcontrol.co.uk SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gladepestcontrol.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 Gladepestcontrol.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Glade Pest Control. 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: