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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

harpendenskips.co.uk

Affordable Skip Hire in Harpenden, St Albans, North London and surrounding areas - Harpenden Skips

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

696 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

245 ms

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About Website

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Harpenden Skips provides affordable skip hire services for domestic and commercial projects across Harpenden, St Albans, North London and surrounding areas. Family-run business with over 20 years of e...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Harpendenskips.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 696 ms and then it took 3.3 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

harpendenskips.co.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.5 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

68/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.235

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.harpendenskips.co.uk

696 ms

styles.css

425 ms

widgets.css

231 ms

multifees.css

210 ms

form.css

212 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Harpendenskips.co.uk, 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Harpendenskips.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 677.8 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Harpendenskips.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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 948.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 31.3 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 27.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 41.9 kB

  • Original 948.0 kB
  • After minification 906.0 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. Harpenden Skips images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 493.5 kB

  • Original 649.7 kB
  • After minification 529.8 kB
  • After compression 156.2 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 493.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 115.2 kB

  • Original 136.8 kB
  • After minification 109.6 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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. Harpendenskips.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 115.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (60%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Harpenden Skips. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.harpendenskips.co.uk

www.harpendenskips.co.uk

696 ms

styles.css

styles.css

425 ms

widgets.css

widgets.css

231 ms

multifees.css

multifees.css

210 ms

form.css

form.css

212 ms

results.css

results.css

212 ms

sagePaySuite.css

sagePaySuite.css

242 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

805 ms

ccard.js

ccard.js

342 ms

validation.js

validation.js

527 ms

builder.js

builder.js

390 ms

effects.js

effects.js

557 ms

dragdrop.js

dragdrop.js

587 ms

controls.js

controls.js

616 ms

slider.js

slider.js

538 ms

js.js

js.js

686 ms

form.js

form.js

688 ms

menu.js

menu.js

685 ms

translate.js

translate.js

720 ms

cookies.js

cookies.js

724 ms

jquery.latest.js

jquery.latest.js

973 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

849 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.14.min.js

jquery-ui-1.8.14.min.js

1022 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

833 ms

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

848 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

918 ms

stickyfloat.js

stickyfloat.js

950 ms

custom.js

custom.js

956 ms

css

css

77 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

11 ms

blogger.js

blogger.js

86 ms

harpendenskips.json

harpendenskips.json

114 ms

blogger.js

blogger.js

83 ms

harpendenskips.json

harpendenskips.json

72 ms

hellocarousell-style.css

hellocarousell-style.css

570 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

613 ms

css

css

18 ms

ga.js

ga.js

31 ms

Grass-Footer-BG.jpg

Grass-Footer-BG.jpg

359 ms

cart-icon.png

cart-icon.png

118 ms

Harpenden-Skips-Logo.png

Harpenden-Skips-Logo.png

123 ms

Harpenden-Skips-4-to-12-yard-Hire.jpg

Harpenden-Skips-4-to-12-yard-Hire.jpg

287 ms

Harpenden-Skips-Skip-Hire-Calculator.jpg

Harpenden-Skips-Skip-Hire-Calculator.jpg

290 ms

Harpenden-Skips-Downloads.jpg

Harpenden-Skips-Downloads.jpg

292 ms

Harpenden-Skips-Recycle-90-Percent.jpg

Harpenden-Skips-Recycle-90-Percent.jpg

367 ms

Harpenden-Skips-Search-Via-Postcode.jpg

Harpenden-Skips-Search-Via-Postcode.jpg

298 ms

Harpenden-Skips-Search-Via-Town-Name.jpg

Harpenden-Skips-Search-Via-Town-Name.jpg

464 ms

Step-1.png

Step-1.png

403 ms

Step-2.png

Step-2.png

405 ms

Step-3.png

Step-3.png

407 ms

Customise-Your-Skip-Hire_4.jpg

Customise-Your-Skip-Hire_4.jpg

488 ms

grab-hire-thumbnail.jpg

grab-hire-thumbnail.jpg

507 ms

roro-hire-thumbnail_1.jpg

roro-hire-thumbnail_1.jpg

534 ms

tipper-hire-thumbnail.jpg

tipper-hire-thumbnail.jpg

534 ms

site-waste-management-plans-thumbnail_1.jpg

site-waste-management-plans-thumbnail_1.jpg

543 ms

creditcards.png

creditcards.png

583 ms

bkg_topsearch.png

bkg_topsearch.png

574 ms

SlGVmQWMvZQIdix7AFxXkHNSaA.ttf

SlGVmQWMvZQIdix7AFxXkHNSaA.ttf

36 ms

SlGWmQWMvZQIdix7AFxXmMh3eDs1Yg.ttf

SlGWmQWMvZQIdix7AFxXmMh3eDs1Yg.ttf

37 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

16 ms

home.png

home.png

556 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

10 ms

title-border.png

title-border.png

570 ms

twittericon.png

twittericon.png

561 ms

bottomfooterlinks.png

bottomfooterlinks.png

535 ms

prev-horizontal.png

prev-horizontal.png

580 ms

next-horizontal.png

next-horizontal.png

596 ms

print.css

print.css

111 ms

Accessibility Review

harpendenskips.co.uk accessibility score

64

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

harpendenskips.co.uk best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

harpendenskips.co.uk SEO score

69

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

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 Harpendenskips.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 Harpendenskips.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

harpendenskips.co.uk

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