Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

howland.co.uk

A F Howland Associates Ltd - Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Site Investigation

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

297 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

157 ms

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A F Howland Associates Ltd - Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Site Investigation specialists providing a service to the civil engineering and related sectors. Also producing geotehnical software GEOD...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howland.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 297 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

howland.co.uk performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.188

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

56/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

howland.co.uk

297 ms

531 ms

howland.css

139 ms

detectmobile.js

270 ms

menu.js

321 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Howland.co.uk, 9% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Howland.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 531.4 kB (18%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Howland.co.uk main page is 3.0 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 68.2 kB

  • Original 90.0 kB
  • After minification 89.5 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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 68.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 79.7 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Howland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 528.8 kB
  • After minification 527.7 kB
  • After compression 519.0 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

-86%

Potential reduce by 373.7 kB

  • Original 434.5 kB
  • After minification 389.4 kB
  • After compression 60.8 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. Howland.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 373.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (31%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Howland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

howland.co.uk accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

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

howland.co.uk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

howland.co.uk SEO score

79

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

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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