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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

thecbm.co.uk

Confederation of British Metalforming | For experts in metalforming

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

569 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

649 ms

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About Website

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Confederation of British Metalforming - UK manufacturers of fasteners, forgings and pressings, cold-rolled and sheet-metal products - 0121 601 6350

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecbm.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 569 ms and then it took 4.1 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

thecbm.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value830 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.216

58/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecbm.co.uk

569 ms

normalize.css

137 ms

main.css

228 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

273 ms

js

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Thecbm.co.uk, 5% (2 requests) were made to Gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (833 ms) belongs to the original domain Thecbm.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 82.6 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecbm.co.uk 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 29.7 kB
  • After minification 25.0 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 4.7 kB, which is 16% 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 23.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 52.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Thecbm images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 103.0 kB
  • After minification 102.6 kB
  • After compression 100.3 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

-24%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 17.3 kB
  • After minification 16.6 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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. Thecbm.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (54%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thecbm. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thecbm.co.uk

thecbm.co.uk

569 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

137 ms

main.css

main.css

228 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

273 ms

js

js

68 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

266 ms

styles.css

styles.css

218 ms

ts-company-finder-public.css

ts-company-finder-public.css

281 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

frontend-gtag.min.js

282 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

68 ms

ts-company-finder-public.js

ts-company-finder-public.js

300 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

431 ms

main.js

main.js

432 ms

style.css

style.css

432 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

443 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

442 ms

cookie-bar.js

cookie-bar.js

442 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

86 ms

loader.js

loader.js

149 ms

CBM-Newest-Logo-InlineIrf50pc.png

CBM-Newest-Logo-InlineIrf50pc.png

202 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

367 ms

CBM_Press_Workers-1366x450.jpg

CBM_Press_Workers-1366x450.jpg

453 ms

CBM_Fasteners-1366x450.jpg

CBM_Fasteners-1366x450.jpg

452 ms

CBM_Cold_Rollers-1366x450.jpg

CBM_Cold_Rollers-1366x450.jpg

558 ms

CBM_SheetMetal_Workers-1366x450.jpg

CBM_SheetMetal_Workers-1366x450.jpg

546 ms

CBM_Forgers-1366x450.jpg

CBM_Forgers-1366x450.jpg

452 ms

CBM_Teamwork-1366x450.jpg

CBM_Teamwork-1366x450.jpg

630 ms

slide-7-1366x450.jpg

slide-7-1366x450.jpg

629 ms

CBM_Training-1366x450.jpg

CBM_Training-1366x450.jpg

709 ms

slide-9-1366x450-1366x450.jpg

slide-9-1366x450-1366x450.jpg

628 ms

anvil-background.jpg

anvil-background.jpg

833 ms

member-stories.jpg

member-stories.jpg

642 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

183 ms

2F5C86_0_0.woff

2F5C86_0_0.woff

590 ms

Roboto-Regular-webfont.woff

Roboto-Regular-webfont.woff

605 ms

call-tracking_7.js

call-tracking_7.js

64 ms

112 ms

collect

collect

29 ms

wcm

wcm

181 ms

178 ms

Accessibility Review

thecbm.co.uk accessibility score

87

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thecbm.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thecbm.co.uk SEO score

91

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 Thecbm.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 Thecbm.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Thecbm. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: