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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

hardscape.co.uk

Hardscape | Commercial Stone & Paving | Inspired Urban Spaces

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

197 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

175 ms

hardscape.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit hardscape.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Hardscape content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about hardscape.co.uk

We work with Architects and Specifiers to create inspirational urban spaces throughout the UK and Ireland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hardscape.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 197 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hardscape.co.uk performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.109

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hardscape.co.uk

197 ms

hardscape.co.uk

374 ms

style.min.css

21 ms

xea7ldl.css

168 ms

slick.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Hardscape.co.uk, 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Hardscape.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 84.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hardscape.co.uk main page is 2.3 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 78.4 kB

  • Original 98.8 kB
  • After minification 84.2 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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 14.6 kB, which is 15% 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 78.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Hardscape images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 87 B

  • Original 102.6 kB
  • After minification 102.6 kB
  • After compression 102.5 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 61.5 kB
  • After minification 61.4 kB
  • After compression 55.1 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. Hardscape.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (50%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hardscape. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hardscape.co.uk

hardscape.co.uk

197 ms

hardscape.co.uk

hardscape.co.uk

374 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

21 ms

xea7ldl.css

xea7ldl.css

168 ms

slick.css

slick.css

37 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

36 ms

magnific-popup.min.css

magnific-popup.min.css

52 ms

style.css

style.css

54 ms

30-years-styles.css

30-years-styles.css

52 ms

search-forms.css

search-forms.css

276 ms

gdpr-main.css

gdpr-main.css

61 ms

gdpr_cc_addon.css

gdpr_cc_addon.css

64 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

339 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

67 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

66 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

64 ms

w.js

w.js

36 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

70 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

78 ms

lazy.js

lazy.js

79 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

80 ms

hardscape.js

hardscape.js

86 ms

css2

css2

60 ms

wc-blocks.css

wc-blocks.css

89 ms

sourcebuster.min.js

sourcebuster.min.js

90 ms

order-attribution.min.js

order-attribution.min.js

94 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

56 ms

main.js

main.js

100 ms

gdpr_cc_addon.js

gdpr_cc_addon.js

103 ms

p.css

p.css

29 ms

g.gif

g.gif

84 ms

Homepage-web-banner-image-Cadence-1800x800.jpg

Homepage-web-banner-image-Cadence-1800x800.jpg

84 ms

homepage-inclusive-infrastructure.jpg

homepage-inclusive-infrastructure.jpg

85 ms

homepage-green-spaces.jpg

homepage-green-spaces.jpg

86 ms

homepage-low-carbon.jpg

homepage-low-carbon.jpg

82 ms

homepage-street-smart.jpg

homepage-street-smart.jpg

84 ms

homepage-top-form.jpg

homepage-top-form.jpg

397 ms

homepage-flexible-permeability.jpg

homepage-flexible-permeability.jpg

102 ms

li-logo.png

li-logo.png

102 ms

linkedin-logo.png

linkedin-logo.png

87 ms

instagram-logo.png

instagram-logo.png

86 ms

pinterest-logo-3.png

pinterest-logo-3.png

100 ms

facebook-logo-3.png

facebook-logo-3.png

103 ms

youtube-logo-3.png

youtube-logo-3.png

102 ms

EO-logo.png

EO-logo.png

104 ms

nbs-logo.png

nbs-logo.png

1138 ms

CfA-Cert-Logo-White-UKAS-ISO-9001-crop-1024x599.png

CfA-Cert-Logo-White-UKAS-ISO-9001-crop-1024x599.png

103 ms

CfA-Cert-Logo-White-UKAS-ISO-14001-crop-1024x603.png

CfA-Cert-Logo-White-UKAS-ISO-14001-crop-1024x603.png

104 ms

federation-stone-logo-1024x285.png

federation-stone-logo-1024x285.png

104 ms

ethical-trading-logo.png

ethical-trading-logo.png

116 ms

tcp-logo.png

tcp-logo.png

114 ms

gdpr-logo.png

gdpr-logo.png

126 ms

down-arrow-white.png

down-arrow-white.png

1125 ms

up-arrow-white.png

up-arrow-white.png

111 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Me5Q.ttf

66 ms

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66 ms

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68 ms

Accessibility Review

hardscape.co.uk accessibility score

80

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hardscape.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

hardscape.co.uk 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hardscape.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 Hardscape.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

hardscape.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Hardscape. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: