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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

americansilica.com

American Silica | Frac Sand & Proppants Producer & Supplier

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

103 ms

Resources Loaded

622 ms

Page Rendered

380 ms

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About Website

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Producer and supplier of frac sand with over 70 million tons of reserves of Northern white sand for proppants. Bulk deliveries and competitive prices.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americansilica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 103 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

americansilica.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.035

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americansilica.com

103 ms

www.americansilica.com

96 ms

vzd3puz.js

168 ms

style.css

29 ms

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Americansilica.com, 23% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (168 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 40.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

897.6 kB

After Optimization

857.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Americansilica.com main page is 897.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 858.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 23.9 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 19.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 858.0 kB
  • After minification 843.2 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. American Silica images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 850 B

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 926 B

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 850 B or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 13.9 kB
  • After minification 13.9 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. Americansilica.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.9 kB or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (23%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Silica. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

americansilica.com

americansilica.com

103 ms

www.americansilica.com

www.americansilica.com

96 ms

vzd3puz.js

vzd3puz.js

168 ms

style.css

style.css

29 ms

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

35 ms

pageLoad.js

pageLoad.js

20 ms

js

js

101 ms

style-m.css

style-m.css

67 ms

bkg_header.jpg

bkg_header.jpg

62 ms

brand.png

brand.png

62 ms

home1.jpg

home1.jpg

63 ms

home2.jpg

home2.jpg

65 ms

home3.jpg

home3.jpg

63 ms

home4.jpg

home4.jpg

66 ms

welcome.jpg

welcome.jpg

65 ms

as@2x.png

as@2x.png

67 ms

silica.jpg

silica.jpg

68 ms

factory.jpg

factory.jpg

69 ms

raft.jpg

raft.jpg

67 ms

bkg_footer.jpg

bkg_footer.jpg

159 ms

location_peg.png

location_peg.png

159 ms

main.js

main.js

103 ms

js

js

119 ms

style_print.css

style_print.css

37 ms

d

d

69 ms

d

d

40 ms

d

d

67 ms

d

d

66 ms

d

d

62 ms

d

d

65 ms

Accessibility Review

americansilica.com accessibility score

95

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

Best Practices

americansilica.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

americansilica.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Americansilica.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 Americansilica.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

americansilica.com

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