Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

saltandgritsolutions.co.uk

Salt & Grit | Ice Salt & Snow Grit | Salt & Grit Solutions

Page Load Speed

10 sec in total

First Response

329 ms

Resources Loaded

9.4 sec

Page Rendered

276 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Saltandgritsolutions.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 329 ms and then it took 9.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

saltandgritsolutions.co.uk performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.325

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

saltandgritsolutions.co.uk

329 ms

www.saltandgritsolutions.co.uk

2667 ms

analytics.js

21 ms

collect

12 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

248 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (112 requests) were addressed to the original Saltandgritsolutions.co.uk, 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Saltandgritsolutions.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.3 MB (53%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Saltandgritsolutions.co.uk main page is 6.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 99.3 kB

  • Original 129.0 kB
  • After minification 122.9 kB
  • After compression 29.6 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. 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 99.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 3.8 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Obviously, Salt And Grit Solutions needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 36% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 616.5 kB

  • Original 878.6 kB
  • After minification 791.4 kB
  • After compression 262.1 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 616.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 154.0 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. Saltandgritsolutions.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 71 (65%)

Requests Now

109

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 109 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Salt And Grit Solutions. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

saltandgritsolutions.co.uk accessibility score

82

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

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

Best Practices

saltandgritsolutions.co.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

saltandgritsolutions.co.uk SEO score

90

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

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

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 Saltandgritsolutions.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 Saltandgritsolutions.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 data is detected on the main page of Salt And Grit Solutions. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: