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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

alexandriaboatworks.com

Rowing and Sculling Boat Shell Repair Washington DC

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

147 ms

Resources Loaded

880 ms

Page Rendered

125 ms

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About Website

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Alexandria Boat Works specialize in rowing boat shell hull repair and restoration for Washington, DC metro area including northern Virgini and Maryland

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alexandriaboatworks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 147 ms and then it took 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

alexandriaboatworks.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alexandriaboatworks.com

147 ms

alexandriaboatworks.com

258 ms

AlexandriaBoatWorks.css

65 ms

Derigo.jpg

370 ms

Quantum_1.jpg

476 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Alexandriaboatworks.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (476 ms) belongs to the original domain Alexandriaboatworks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 28.8 kB (5%)

Content Size

627.8 kB

After Optimization

598.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alexandriaboatworks.com main page is 627.8 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 623.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 3.5 kB
  • After minification 2.6 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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 910 B, which is 26% 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 2.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 26.3 kB

  • Original 623.9 kB
  • After minification 597.5 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. Alexandria Boat Works images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 77 B

  • Original 393 B
  • After minification 393 B
  • After compression 316 B

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. Alexandriaboatworks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77 B or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alexandria Boat Works. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

alexandriaboatworks.com

alexandriaboatworks.com

147 ms

alexandriaboatworks.com

alexandriaboatworks.com

258 ms

AlexandriaBoatWorks.css

AlexandriaBoatWorks.css

65 ms

Derigo.jpg

Derigo.jpg

370 ms

Quantum_1.jpg

Quantum_1.jpg

476 ms

shop1.JPG

shop1.JPG

188 ms

IMGP6537.JPG

IMGP6537.JPG

248 ms

spacepic.jpg

spacepic.jpg

306 ms

Accessibility Review

alexandriaboatworks.com accessibility score

72

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

Best Practices

alexandriaboatworks.com 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

SEO Factors

alexandriaboatworks.com 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

alexandriaboatworks.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Alexandria Boat Works. 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: