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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

apc-hereford.co.uk

Mercian Logistics - UK's Largest Independent Shipping Network

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

633 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 180 ms and then it took 5.2 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

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apc-hereford.co.uk

180 ms

mercian.co.uk

1756 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

344 ms

style.min.css

426 ms

styles.css

260 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 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, 72% (56 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 (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Mercian.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (35%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apc-hereford.co.uk main page is 5.0 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 224.9 kB

  • Original 265.7 kB
  • After minification 259.4 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 224.9 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

-59%

Potential reduce by 193.0 kB

  • Original 329.3 kB
  • After minification 313.8 kB
  • After compression 136.2 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 193.0 kB or 59% 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 42 (69%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 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 25 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

180 ms

mercian.co.uk

mercian.co.uk

1756 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

344 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

426 ms

styles.css

styles.css

260 ms

stm.css

stm.css

261 ms

tp_twitter_plugin.css

tp_twitter_plugin.css

262 ms

rs6.css

rs6.css

317 ms

styles.css

styles.css

342 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

581 ms

stm.css

stm.css

343 ms

style.css

style.css

476 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

507 ms

select2.min.css

select2.min.css

509 ms

css

css

33 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

909 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

507 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

470 ms

rbtools.min.js

rbtools.min.js

642 ms

rs6.min.js

rs6.min.js

812 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

413 ms

css

css

19 ms

v4-shims.min.css

v4-shims.min.css

432 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

514 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

518 ms

js_composer_tta.min.css

js_composer_tta.min.css

649 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

579 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

591 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

608 ms

select2.min.js

select2.min.js

660 ms

custom.js

custom.js

1031 ms

SmoothScroll.js

SmoothScroll.js

1085 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

1085 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

1086 ms

vivus.min.js

vivus.min.js

1086 ms

countUp.min.js

countUp.min.js

1086 ms

jquery.appear.js

jquery.appear.js

1087 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

1087 ms

js

js

59 ms

skrollr.min.js

skrollr.min.js

1087 ms

vc-accordion.min.js

vc-accordion.min.js

1073 ms

vc-tta-autoplay.min.js

vc-tta-autoplay.min.js

1070 ms

logo.png

logo.png

143 ms

slider_1.jpg

slider_1.jpg

1059 ms

slider_2.jpg

slider_2.jpg

200 ms

slider_4.jpg

slider_4.jpg

1116 ms

slider_3.jpg

slider_3.jpg

1112 ms

lorry.jpg

lorry.jpg

317 ms

pallex-lorry.jpg

pallex-lorry.jpg

199 ms

apc-blue.jpg

apc-blue.jpg

1059 ms

pallex-red-1.jpg

pallex-red-1.jpg

1059 ms

warehouse-255x170.jpg

warehouse-255x170.jpg

1212 ms

apc-overnight-255x170.jpg

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1131 ms

pallex-service-255x170.jpg

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1213 ms

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1214 ms

international-255x170.jpg

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1214 ms

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placeholder.gif

1215 ms

tracking-bg.jpg

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1079 ms

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1006 ms

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568 ms

common.js

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99 ms

util.js

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119 ms

map.js

map.js

84 ms

marker.js

marker.js

65 ms

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: