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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 46

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

gqcontracting.com

Great Quality General Contracting LLC. - Construction & Remodeling - Marshfield, MA

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

141 ms

Resources Loaded

923 ms

Page Rendered

158 ms

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About Website

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#1 Home Builders and Remodeling General Contractor. Specializing in Kitchen Remodeling, Bath Remodeling, and Custom Homes in Marshfield, MA

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gqcontracting.com page load time and found that the first response time was 141 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gqcontracting.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.133

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gqcontracting.com

141 ms

www.gqcontracting.com

166 ms

reset.css

72 ms

fonts.css

148 ms

home.css

150 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Gqcontracting.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (458 ms) belongs to the original domain Gqcontracting.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 47.3 kB (13%)

Content Size

363.8 kB

After Optimization

316.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gqcontracting.com main page is 363.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 343.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 8.5 kB
  • After minification 7.0 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 1.5 kB, which is 18% 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 6.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 38.8 kB

  • Original 343.3 kB
  • After minification 304.5 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. Obviously, Gq Contracting needs image optimization as it can save up to 38.8 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 7.3 kB
  • After minification 7.3 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 1.1 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 4.7 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. Gqcontracting.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (26%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gq Contracting. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gqcontracting.com

gqcontracting.com

141 ms

www.gqcontracting.com

www.gqcontracting.com

166 ms

reset.css

reset.css

72 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

148 ms

home.css

home.css

150 ms

theme2-home.css

theme2-home.css

150 ms

portfolio.css

portfolio.css

151 ms

menu.css

menu.css

150 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

150 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

9 ms

menu.js

menu.js

212 ms

220 ms

4193_241.jpg

4193_241.jpg

358 ms

56715.jpg

56715.jpg

228 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

4 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

253 ms

body_bg.png

body_bg.png

72 ms

header_top.jpg

header_top.jpg

124 ms

134 ms

nav_bg.jpg

nav_bg.jpg

142 ms

nav.jpg

nav.jpg

143 ms

4193_233.jpg

4193_233.jpg

458 ms

content_bg.jpg

content_bg.jpg

204 ms

213 ms

footer_bg.png

footer_bg.png

213 ms

Accessibility Review

gqcontracting.com accessibility score

46

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

gqcontracting.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

gqcontracting.com SEO score

85

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gqcontracting.com 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 Gqcontracting.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

gqcontracting.com

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