Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

orkin.com

Orkin Termite Treatment, Pest Control & Exterminator Service | Orkin

Page Load Speed

11 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

4.4 sec

orkin.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Orkin.com page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 11 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

orkin.com performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,390 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.098

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

orkin.com

36 ms

www.orkin.com

1266 ms

language-selector.css

30 ms

orkin.min.css

119 ms

disguise.css

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Orkin.com, 39% (41 requests) were made to Cdn.orkin.com and 9% (9 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Oauth.googleusercontent.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (52%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Orkin.com main page is 2.6 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. 80% 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. Images take 997.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 134.6 kB

  • Original 158.7 kB
  • After minification 135.0 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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 23.7 kB, which is 15% 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 134.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 89.7 kB

  • Original 997.8 kB
  • After minification 908.1 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. Orkin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 626.1 kB

  • Original 871.9 kB
  • After minification 815.2 kB
  • After compression 245.8 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 626.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 523.1 kB

  • Original 612.3 kB
  • After minification 597.6 kB
  • After compression 89.1 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. Orkin.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 523.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (43%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Orkin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

orkin.com accessibility score

85

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

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

orkin.com 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

orkin.com 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Orkin.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 Orkin.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

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