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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

balmersgm.com

Turf Machinery Specialists since 1979 | Balmers GM Ltd

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

198 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

329 ms

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About Website

Visit balmersgm.com now to see the best up-to-date Balmers GM content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about balmersgm.com

We stock the latest new turf machinery and lawn and garden equipment, as well as having a range of quality used machinery available for purchase or hire.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balmersgm.com page load time and found that the first response time was 198 ms and then it took 3.4 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

balmersgm.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value620 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.108

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balmersgm.com

198 ms

www.balmersgm.com

193 ms

www.balmersgm.com

539 ms

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189 ms

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380 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Balmersgm.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Balmersgm.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 179.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Balmersgm.com main page is 2.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 74.9 kB

  • Original 94.1 kB
  • After minification 83.2 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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 10.9 kB, which is 12% 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 74.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 103.8 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Balmers GM images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 200 B

  • Original 90.6 kB
  • After minification 90.6 kB
  • After compression 90.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 191 B

  • Original 38.7 kB
  • After minification 38.7 kB
  • After compression 38.6 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. Balmersgm.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (25%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

40

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balmers GM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

balmersgm.com

balmersgm.com

198 ms

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193 ms

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539 ms

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189 ms

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380 ms

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28 ms

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Accessibility Review

balmersgm.com accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

balmersgm.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

balmersgm.com SEO score

93

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

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 Balmersgm.com 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 Balmersgm.com 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

balmersgm.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Balmers GM. 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: