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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

mcalarms.co.uk

MC Alarms: Alarm service and maintenance in Essex & Suffolk

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

326 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

303 ms

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About Website

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Colchester based independent company, specialising in Quality Alarm Systems both domestic and commercial. Service, maintenance and repair of systems, including Eaton i-on, Menvier and Scantronic also ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mcalarms.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 326 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

mcalarms.co.uk performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

74/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mcalarms.co.uk

326 ms

mcalarms.co.uk

440 ms

bootstrap.min.css

112 ms

all.css

61 ms

icon

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Mcalarms.co.uk, 15% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Mcalarms.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 117.5 kB (15%)

Content Size

802.2 kB

After Optimization

684.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mcalarms.co.uk main page is 802.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 765.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 23.3 kB
  • After minification 18.3 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 4.9 kB, which is 21% 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 17.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 98.8 kB

  • Original 765.7 kB
  • After minification 666.9 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. Obviously, MC Alarms needs image optimization as it can save up to 98.8 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 902 B

  • Original 13.2 kB
  • After minification 12.8 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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. Mcalarms.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (25%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MC Alarms. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mcalarms.co.uk

mcalarms.co.uk

326 ms

mcalarms.co.uk

mcalarms.co.uk

440 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

112 ms

all.css

all.css

61 ms

icon

icon

56 ms

icon

icon

71 ms

mcalarms-9.css

mcalarms-9.css

85 ms

MCA_Logo.png

MCA_Logo.png

169 ms

KEY-FKPZ-SCsilverkeypad.jpg

KEY-FKPZ-SCsilverkeypad.jpg

509 ms

key-fkpz-bl-lores_1_blackkeypadmount.jpg

key-fkpz-bl-lores_1_blackkeypadmount.jpg

481 ms

key-fkpz-pc-lores_1_silverkeypadmounted.jpg

key-fkpz-pc-lores_1_silverkeypadmounted.jpg

453 ms

scantronic_key-k01_keypad_non_prox-500x500standeredkeypad.png

scantronic_key-k01_keypad_non_prox-500x500standeredkeypad.png

1691 ms

keypad_ts.jpg

keypad_ts.jpg

496 ms

keypad_ts_2.jpg

keypad_ts_2.jpg

585 ms

old_ion.jpg

old_ion.jpg

798 ms

jquery-3.5.1.slim.min.js

jquery-3.5.1.slim.min.js

37 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

52 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

134 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

20 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

38 ms

Accessibility Review

mcalarms.co.uk accessibility score

93

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mcalarms.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mcalarms.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Mcalarms.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 Mcalarms.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

mcalarms.co.uk

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