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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

thesolar.biz

Solar Panels from The Solar Biz

Page Load Speed

20.9 sec in total

First Response

224 ms

Resources Loaded

20 sec

Page Rendered

665 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesolar.biz page load time and found that the first response time was 224 ms and then it took 20.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 2 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

thesolar.biz performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,780 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesolar.biz

224 ms

outline.js

105 ms

upfront-badgeinit.js

19799 ms

quant.js

43 ms

CompanyWidget.aspx

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Thesolar.biz, 37% (11 requests) were made to Trustlink.org and 7% (2 requests) were made to Upfront.thefind.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.8 sec) relates to the external source Upfront.thefind.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 308.3 kB (55%)

Content Size

565.0 kB

After Optimization

256.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thesolar.biz main page is 565.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 327.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 59.1 kB

  • Original 71.4 kB
  • After minification 62.6 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 8.7 kB, which is 12% 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 59.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 138.3 kB

  • Original 327.4 kB
  • After minification 189.1 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. Obviously, The Solar needs image optimization as it can save up to 138.3 kB or 42% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 109.9 kB

  • Original 161.7 kB
  • After minification 154.2 kB
  • After compression 51.7 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 109.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 4.6 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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. Thesolar.biz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (17%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Solar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thesolar.biz

thesolar.biz

224 ms

outline.js

outline.js

105 ms

upfront-badgeinit.js

upfront-badgeinit.js

19799 ms

quant.js

quant.js

43 ms

CompanyWidget.aspx

CompanyWidget.aspx

155 ms

1195.gif

1195.gif

151 ms

StoreBadgeEN.png

StoreBadgeEN.png

67 ms

credit-all_side.gif

credit-all_side.gif

731 ms

s_badge.png

s_badge.png

19737 ms

call_us780.gif

call_us780.gif

58 ms

banner-image-logo-TSB-NEW.jpg

banner-image-logo-TSB-NEW.jpg

181 ms

Tom_Boe.JPG

Tom_Boe.JPG

214 ms

seia_logo.jpg

seia_logo.jpg

81 ms

Better_Business-seal.jpg

Better_Business-seal.jpg

213 ms

casm_logo.gif

casm_logo.gif

88 ms

image001.gif

image001.gif

115 ms

us.map.gif

us.map.gif

293 ms

cacbul1a.gif

cacbul1a.gif

118 ms

pixel;r=1311030869;a=p-360Rdt5LnrI02;fpan=1;fpa=P0-19593935-1460128027179;ns=0;ce=1;cm=;je=0;sr=1024x768x32;enc=n;dst=0;et=1460128027178;tzo=-180;ref=;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesolar.biz%2F;ogl=

pixel;r=1311030869;a=p-360Rdt5LnrI02;fpan=1;fpa=P0-19593935-1460128027179;ns=0;ce=1;cm=;je=0;sr=1024x768x32;enc=n;dst=0;et=1460128027178;tzo=-180;ref=;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesolar.biz%2F;ogl=

12 ms

call_us780.GIF

call_us780.GIF

93 ms

CompanyWidget.aspx

CompanyWidget.aspx

244 ms

StyleSheet20.css

StyleSheet20.css

57 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

122 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

298 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

206 ms

body_tile.jpg

body_tile.jpg

101 ms

tl_4_5stars_sm.png

tl_4_5stars_sm.png

119 ms

tl_widget_logo.png

tl_widget_logo.png

284 ms

tl_widget_write.png

tl_widget_write.png

185 ms

tl_widget_read.png

tl_widget_read.png

204 ms

Accessibility Review

thesolar.biz accessibility score

56

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

thesolar.biz best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thesolar.biz SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thesolar.biz 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 Thesolar.biz main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

thesolar.biz

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