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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

building.co.uk

Home page | The world's leading construction website

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

250 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

451 ms

building.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to building.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Building best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about building.co.uk

The UK's leading magazine for construction professionals featuring the latest news, expertise and intelligence from the Building industry

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Key Findings

We analyzed Building.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 250 ms and then it took 3.8 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

building.co.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,870 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

building.co.uk

250 ms

432 ms

structure.css

159 ms

furniture.css

161 ms

screen.css

164 ms

Our browser made a total of 189 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (116 requests) were addressed to the original Building.co.uk, 12% (23 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 7% (13 requests) were made to Barbourproductsearch.info. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (970 ms) belongs to the original domain Building.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (28%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Building.co.uk main page is 3.8 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 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 105.1 kB

  • Original 135.0 kB
  • After minification 129.4 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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 105.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 259.2 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Building images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 607.8 kB

  • Original 874.4 kB
  • After minification 735.0 kB
  • After compression 266.6 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 607.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 111.6 kB

  • Original 136.8 kB
  • After minification 103.8 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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. Building.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 111.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 91 (50%)

Requests Now

182

After Optimization

91

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 182 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Building. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

building.co.uk

building.co.uk

250 ms

432 ms

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structure.css

159 ms

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furniture.css

161 ms

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Accessibility Review

building.co.uk accessibility score

96

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.

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

building.co.uk best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

building.co.uk SEO score

99

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

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 Building.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 Building.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

building.co.uk

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