Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

brickplus.co.uk

BrickPlus - Innovative Brick Cladding Solutions for the UK

Page Load Speed

42.7 sec in total

First Response

18.6 sec

Resources Loaded

23.7 sec

Page Rendered

475 ms

brickplus.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to brickplus.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Brick Plus best content right away, or after learning these important things about brickplus.co.uk

BrickPlus is a lightweight, customisable, rapid-fit brick slip system. A truly fast, tailored alternative to traditional construction.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brickplus.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 18.6 sec and then it took 24.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brickplus.co.uk performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value51.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brickplus.co.uk

18585 ms

shop.css

256 ms

style.min.css

339 ms

magnific-popup.css

242 ms

be-gdpr-public.css

243 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (104 requests) were addressed to the original Brickplus.co.uk, 7% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Brickplus-co-uk.stackstaging.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (18.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Brickplus.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 355.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Brickplus.co.uk main page is 2.0 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 936.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 152.8 kB

  • Original 185.6 kB
  • After minification 180.8 kB
  • After compression 32.8 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 152.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 936.4 kB
  • After minification 932.1 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. Brick Plus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 163.7 kB

  • Original 747.0 kB
  • After minification 747.0 kB
  • After compression 583.3 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 163.7 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 137.6 kB
  • After minification 137.1 kB
  • After compression 103.1 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. Brickplus.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.5 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 95 (87%)

Requests Now

109

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 109 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brick Plus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 78 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

brickplus.co.uk accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

brickplus.co.uk best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

brickplus.co.uk SEO score

91

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

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 Brickplus.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 Brickplus.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 Brick Plus. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: