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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

americangeeks.org

- American Geeks - Computer & Network Service On-Site Virginia Maryland and DC

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

256 ms

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About Website

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American Geeks is providing on site computer and network support in Virginia, Maryland and DC. Call 703-653-4404 to schedule a house call.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americangeeks.org page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americangeeks.org performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americangeeks.org

169 ms

americangeeks.org

1173 ms

reset.css

161 ms

style.css

282 ms

colorbox.css

280 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Americangeeks.org, 6% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Americangeeks.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 806.5 kB (37%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Americangeeks.org main page is 2.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 452.0 kB

  • Original 487.6 kB
  • After minification 480.1 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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 452.0 kB or 93% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 327.3 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

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, American Geeks needs image optimization as it can save up to 327.3 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 158.6 kB
  • After minification 158.6 kB
  • After compression 133.6 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 25.0 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 7.4 kB
  • After minification 7.1 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. Americangeeks.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.2 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (45%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Geeks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

americangeeks.org

americangeeks.org

169 ms

americangeeks.org

americangeeks.org

1173 ms

reset.css

reset.css

161 ms

style.css

style.css

282 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

280 ms

jquery.jscrollpane.css

jquery.jscrollpane.css

296 ms

css

css

35 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

365 ms

jquery.plugin.min.js

jquery.plugin.min.js

350 ms

jquery.colorbox.js

jquery.colorbox.js

310 ms

html5.js

html5.js

363 ms

engine.min.js

engine.min.js

495 ms

marker-1.png

marker-1.png

86 ms

footer-tail.jpg

footer-tail.jpg

192 ms

box-title.png

box-title.png

199 ms

icon1.png

icon1.png

199 ms

icon3.png

icon3.png

200 ms

icon2.png

icon2.png

200 ms

main-shadow.png

main-shadow.png

493 ms

marker-3.png

marker-3.png

199 ms

slide1_50b19b7e1867a.jpg

slide1_50b19b7e1867a.jpg

660 ms

slide3.jpg

slide3.jpg

502 ms

slide2_50b19b7f7ad6c.jpg

slide2_50b19b7f7ad6c.jpg

606 ms

sslide7.jpg

sslide7.jpg

598 ms

prev_arrow_big.png

prev_arrow_big.png

326 ms

next_arrow_big.png

next_arrow_big.png

406 ms

ga.js

ga.js

141 ms

bullet_up.png

bullet_up.png

328 ms

bullet_selected.png

bullet_selected.png

376 ms

null.gif

null.gif

386 ms

font

font

27 ms

font

font

41 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

24 ms

Accessibility Review

americangeeks.org accessibility score

63

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.

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

americangeeks.org best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

americangeeks.org SEO score

83

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Americangeeks.org 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 Americangeeks.org 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

americangeeks.org

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