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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

apc-hereford.co.uk

Mercian Logistics - UK's Largest Independent Shipping Network

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

286 ms

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About Website

Welcome to apc-hereford.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Apc Hereford best content right away, or after learning these important things about apc-hereford.co.uk

Mercian Logistics are an independent logistics business based in Hereford providing a range of distribution, storage and fulfilment services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apc-hereford.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 104 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apc-hereford.co.uk performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apc-hereford.co.uk

104 ms

mercian.co.uk

2724 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

88 ms

style.min.css

175 ms

styles.css

261 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Apc-hereford.co.uk, 77% (58 requests) were made to Mercian.co.uk and 17% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source Mercian.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (38%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apc-hereford.co.uk main page is 5.5 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. 75% 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 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 223.0 kB

  • Original 263.8 kB
  • After minification 257.4 kB
  • After compression 40.8 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. 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 223.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 101.5 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Apc Hereford images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 569.9 kB

  • Original 889.0 kB
  • After minification 873.5 kB
  • After compression 319.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 569.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 148.4 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. Apc-hereford.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (68%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apc Hereford. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

apc-hereford.co.uk

apc-hereford.co.uk

104 ms

mercian.co.uk

mercian.co.uk

2724 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

88 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

175 ms

styles.css

styles.css

261 ms

stm.css

stm.css

261 ms

tp_twitter_plugin.css

tp_twitter_plugin.css

264 ms

rs6.css

rs6.css

435 ms

styles.css

styles.css

265 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

352 ms

stm.css

stm.css

348 ms

style.css

style.css

688 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

437 ms

select2.min.css

select2.min.css

439 ms

css

css

32 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

862 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

516 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

515 ms

rbtools.min.js

rbtools.min.js

692 ms

rs6.min.js

rs6.min.js

908 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

602 ms

css

css

37 ms

v4-shims.min.css

v4-shims.min.css

602 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

775 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

767 ms

js_composer_tta.min.css

js_composer_tta.min.css

905 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

779 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

905 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

906 ms

select2.min.js

select2.min.js

926 ms

custom.js

custom.js

977 ms

SmoothScroll.js

SmoothScroll.js

976 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

976 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

977 ms

vivus.min.js

vivus.min.js

977 ms

countUp.min.js

countUp.min.js

978 ms

jquery.appear.js

jquery.appear.js

1028 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

1028 ms

js

js

91 ms

skrollr.min.js

skrollr.min.js

1060 ms

vc-accordion.min.js

vc-accordion.min.js

986 ms

vc-tta-autoplay.min.js

vc-tta-autoplay.min.js

898 ms

logo.png

logo.png

188 ms

slider_1.jpg

slider_1.jpg

372 ms

slider_2.jpg

slider_2.jpg

587 ms

slider_4.jpg

slider_4.jpg

373 ms

slider_3.jpg

slider_3.jpg

758 ms

lorry.jpg

lorry.jpg

592 ms

pallex-lorry.jpg

pallex-lorry.jpg

617 ms

apc-blue.jpg

apc-blue.jpg

489 ms

pallex-red-1.jpg

pallex-red-1.jpg

489 ms

warehouse-255x170.jpg

warehouse-255x170.jpg

540 ms

apc-overnight-255x170.jpg

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542 ms

pallex-service-255x170.jpg

pallex-service-255x170.jpg

627 ms

sam-day-255x170.jpg

sam-day-255x170.jpg

631 ms

international-255x170.jpg

international-255x170.jpg

674 ms

placeholder.gif

placeholder.gif

680 ms

tracking-bg.jpg

tracking-bg.jpg

654 ms

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Accessibility Review

apc-hereford.co.uk accessibility score

82

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.

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

apc-hereford.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

apc-hereford.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 Apc-hereford.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 Apc-hereford.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

apc-hereford.co.uk

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