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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

goldtrowel.org

Goldtrowel - Construction Training Courses

Page Load Speed

12.6 sec in total

First Response

2.6 sec

Resources Loaded

9.2 sec

Page Rendered

810 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Goldtrowel content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about goldtrowel.org

Goldtrowel specialize in training courses for Trowel Occupations, NVQ 2 and 3 in Plastering, Rendering, Tiling, Bricklaying, Block Paving and Venetian Marble Plaster.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Goldtrowel.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2.6 sec and then it took 10 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

goldtrowel.org performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value32,610 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.goldtrowel.co.uk

2614 ms

css

25 ms

main2.css

164 ms

facebox.css

157 ms

jquery.min.js

505 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Goldtrowel.org, 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source Goldtrowel.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 263.1 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Goldtrowel.org main page is 1.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 47.3 kB
  • After minification 44.2 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 37.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 86.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Goldtrowel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 129.7 kB

  • Original 210.5 kB
  • After minification 197.2 kB
  • After compression 80.8 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 129.7 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 12.0 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Goldtrowel.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (21%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

71

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Goldtrowel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.goldtrowel.co.uk

www.goldtrowel.co.uk

2614 ms

css

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25 ms

main2.css

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164 ms

facebox.css

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157 ms

jquery.min.js

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505 ms

analytics.js

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257 ms

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162 ms

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237 ms

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241 ms

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160 ms

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Accessibility Review

goldtrowel.org accessibility score

65

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

goldtrowel.org 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

goldtrowel.org SEO score

86

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

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

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Goldtrowel.org 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 Goldtrowel.org main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

goldtrowel.org

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