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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

18karatinc.com

18 Karat, Inc. | Innovative ideas in all aspects of excavation and construction.

Page Load Speed

852 ms in total

First Response

97 ms

Resources Loaded

576 ms

Page Rendered

179 ms

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About Website

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18 Karat, Inc. was established in 1994 with the goal to exceed customer expectations and to continue at the leading edge of innovative ideas in all aspects of excavation and construction.

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Key Findings

We analyzed 18karatinc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 97 ms and then it took 755 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

18karatinc.com performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

76/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

18karatinc.com

97 ms

18karatinc.com

123 ms

style-test.css

33 ms

siteseal.js

99 ms

mobile.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original 18karatinc.com, 12% (2 requests) were made to Seal.networksolutions.com and 12% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (222 ms) belongs to the original domain 18karatinc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 12.2 kB (2%)

Content Size

583.0 kB

After Optimization

570.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 18karatinc.com main page is 583.0 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 547.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 11.3 kB
  • After minification 10.5 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 7.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 547.2 kB
  • After minification 543.7 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. 18 Karat Inc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 72 B

  • Original 21.4 kB
  • After minification 21.4 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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

-28%

Potential reduce by 871 B

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. 18karatinc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 871 B or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 18 Karat Inc. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

18karatinc.com

18karatinc.com

97 ms

18karatinc.com

18karatinc.com

123 ms

style-test.css

style-test.css

33 ms

siteseal.js

siteseal.js

99 ms

mobile.css

mobile.css

28 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

26 ms

background-top.jpg

background-top.jpg

55 ms

basicrecgreen.gif

basicrecgreen.gif

20 ms

leftbackgroundcrop.png

leftbackgroundcrop.png

101 ms

logo.png

logo.png

117 ms

rightBackgroundcrop.png

rightBackgroundcrop.png

177 ms

PhotoHeader.jpg

PhotoHeader.jpg

222 ms

BodyCrop.jpg

BodyCrop.jpg

128 ms

JoinUp.png

JoinUp.png

95 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

js

js

71 ms

JoinOver.png

JoinOver.png

33 ms

Accessibility Review

18karatinc.com accessibility score

51

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

18karatinc.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

18karatinc.com SEO score

86

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 18karatinc.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 18karatinc.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

18karatinc.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 18 Karat Inc. 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: