Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

equipmidlands.co.uk

Equip - Specialist Developer and Supplier of Polishing and Grinding Products

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

286 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

151 ms

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About Website

Welcome to equipmidlands.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Equip Midlands best content right away, or after learning these important things about equipmidlands.co.uk

Equip Specialist Developer and Supplier of polishing and grinding products, grinding wheels, coated abrasives and polishing and grinding machines for a wide range of industries including Aerospace, Me...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Equipmidlands.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 286 ms and then it took 3.5 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

equipmidlands.co.uk performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.366

29/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

equipmidlands.co.uk

286 ms

index.php

256 ms

opensans.css

190 ms

main.css

375 ms

equip-2023.css

282 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Equipmidlands.co.uk, 9% (5 requests) were made to Images.liaisonx.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Images.liaisonx.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 300.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Equipmidlands.co.uk main page is 1.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 25.0 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 20.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Equip Midlands images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 221.8 kB

  • Original 335.6 kB
  • After minification 332.6 kB
  • After compression 113.8 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 221.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 58.4 kB
  • After minification 37.8 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. Equipmidlands.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (39%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Equip Midlands. 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 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

equipmidlands.co.uk accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

equipmidlands.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

equipmidlands.co.uk SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Equipmidlands.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Equipmidlands.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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