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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

the-signmakers.com

Brownings Ltd – Sign makers and Sign trade supplies

Page Load Speed

23.8 sec in total

First Response

343 ms

Resources Loaded

21.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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About Website

Welcome to the-signmakers.com homepage info - get ready to check The Sign Makers best content right away, or after learning these important things about the-signmakers.com

Brownings Ltd are a TRADE ONLY sign makers based in Hull serving the UK. Sign trade supplies at its best.

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Key Findings

We analyzed The-signmakers.com page load time and found that the first response time was 343 ms and then it took 23.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

the-signmakers.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,030 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

the-signmakers.com

343 ms

the-signmakers.com

357 ms

browningsltd.co.uk

577 ms

animate.css

272 ms

bootstrap.min.css

572 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original The-signmakers.com, 73% (58 requests) were made to Browningsltd.co.uk and 8% (6 requests) were made to Widget.trustpilot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.6 sec) relates to the external source Browningsltd.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 727.0 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

638.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of The-signmakers.com main page is 1.4 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. CSS take 461.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 87.3 kB

  • Original 98.4 kB
  • After minification 63.5 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 34.9 kB, which is 35% 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 87.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 432.2 kB
  • After minification 430.5 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. The Sign Makers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 238.4 kB

  • Original 373.4 kB
  • After minification 332.3 kB
  • After compression 135.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 238.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 399.6 kB

  • Original 461.7 kB
  • After minification 407.7 kB
  • After compression 62.1 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. The-signmakers.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 399.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (44%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Sign Makers. 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 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

the-signmakers.com

the-signmakers.com

343 ms

the-signmakers.com

the-signmakers.com

357 ms

browningsltd.co.uk

browningsltd.co.uk

577 ms

animate.css

animate.css

272 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

572 ms

magnific-popup.css

magnific-popup.css

304 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

388 ms

line-awesome.css

line-awesome.css

466 ms

flaticon.css

flaticon.css

305 ms

slick.css

slick.css

363 ms

style.css

style.css

582 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

483 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

113 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

143 ms

js

js

114 ms

callus.js

callus.js

1030 ms

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

523 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

469 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

550 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.js

jquery.magnific-popup.js

691 ms

wow.min.js

wow.min.js

587 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

647 ms

jquery.counterup.min.js

jquery.counterup.min.js

690 ms

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

690 ms

isotope.pkgd.min.js

isotope.pkgd.min.js

690 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

699 ms

easing.min.js

easing.min.js

774 ms

main.js

main.js

774 ms

css

css

38 ms

default

default

91 ms

BrowningsLogolarge.png

BrowningsLogolarge.png

163 ms

Illuminated_flex_face_sign-min.png

Illuminated_flex_face_sign-min.png

248 ms

Retro_frame-min.png

Retro_frame-min.png

244 ms

TexSign-min.png

TexSign-min.png

263 ms

Slimlock_notice_boards-min_(2).png

Slimlock_notice_boards-min_(2).png

388 ms

Snap_frame_Posterlite.png

Snap_frame_Posterlite.png

265 ms

illuminated_light_box-min.png

illuminated_light_box-min.png

262 ms

Menu_case.png

Menu_case.png

262 ms

trough_light-min.png

trough_light-min.png

262 ms

Easitex_tension_fabric_system-min.png

Easitex_tension_fabric_system-min.png

521 ms

Flex_face_sign_extrusion.png

Flex_face_sign_extrusion.png

523 ms

digital_signage_coming_soon.jpg

digital_signage_coming_soon.jpg

512 ms

tile1.jpg

tile1.jpg

513 ms

nextsign.jpg

nextsign.jpg

513 ms

boots.jpg

boots.jpg

514 ms

ecoflex.jpg

ecoflex.jpg

1133 ms

signman.jpg

signman.jpg

1133 ms

marleys.jpg

marleys.jpg

1133 ms

Rich.png

Rich.png

1134 ms

Brad.png

Brad.png

1154 ms

Dan.png

Dan.png

1154 ms

Jordan.png

Jordan.png

1167 ms

Clipping_a_flex_face_skin.png

Clipping_a_flex_face_skin.png

1169 ms

Magnetic_slimlock_5-min.png

Magnetic_slimlock_5-min.png

1159 ms

think_outside_of_the_powdercoated_box!.png

think_outside_of_the_powdercoated_box!.png

1156 ms

Illuminated_flex_face_sign-min.png

Illuminated_flex_face_sign-min.png

1157 ms

80cv1.jpg

80cv1.jpg

1155 ms

phatt.jpg

phatt.jpg

1159 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

43 ms

signcomplogo.png

signcomplogo.png

1115 ms

RMC_Logo-1.png

RMC_Logo-1.png

19605 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

126 ms

collect

collect

792 ms

insidebrownings.jpg

insidebrownings.jpg

686 ms

staff1.png

staff1.png

674 ms

footer-bg.jpg

footer-bg.jpg

672 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

409 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

409 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

410 ms

la-solid-900.woff

la-solid-900.woff

404 ms

la-regular-400.woff

la-regular-400.woff

403 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

398 ms

index.html

index.html

589 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

359 ms

main.js

main.js

14 ms

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5613c9cde69ddc09340c6beb

237 ms

popup.html

popup.html

18 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

162 ms

popup.js

popup.js

21 ms

Accessibility Review

the-signmakers.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

the-signmakers.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

the-signmakers.com 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 The-signmakers.com 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 The-signmakers.com 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

the-signmakers.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Sign Makers. 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: