Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

amrc.com

Ameresco | Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency & Management, ESPCs

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

290 ms

amrc.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Amrc content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about amrc.com

Ameresco is a leading renewable energy company and energy efficiency company offering ESPC-funded energy solutions for public and private organizations.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Amrc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 88 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

amrc.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value42.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,550 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ameresco.com

88 ms

www.ameresco.com

149 ms

css

60 ms

grid.css

36 ms

base.css

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 190 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Amrc.com, 2% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (388 ms) relates to the external source Ameresco.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 221.7 kB (2%)

Content Size

10.8 MB

After Optimization

10.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Amrc.com main page is 10.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 160.7 kB

  • Original 193.1 kB
  • After minification 190.5 kB
  • After compression 32.4 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 160.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 9.9 MB
  • After minification 9.9 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. Amrc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 39.1 kB

  • Original 542.5 kB
  • After minification 542.0 kB
  • After compression 503.3 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

-14%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 161.5 kB
  • After minification 161.2 kB
  • After compression 139.6 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. Amrc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.9 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 146 (80%)

Requests Now

182

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 182 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Amrc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 75 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 73 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

amrc.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

amrc.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

amrc.com SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Amrc. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: