Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

astepaheadflooring.com

Chicago’s top hardwood floor installation company as flooring key

Page Load Speed

22.5 sec in total

First Response

136 ms

Resources Loaded

22 sec

Page Rendered

402 ms

astepaheadflooring.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Astepaheadflooring.com page load time and found that the first response time was 136 ms and then it took 22.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

astepaheadflooring.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,540 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.042

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

astepaheadflooring.com

136 ms

astepaheadflooring.com

1162 ms

font-awesome.min.css

34 ms

new-style.css

56 ms

css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Astepaheadflooring.com, 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.4 sec) relates to the external source Angieslist.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.6 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Astepaheadflooring.com main page is 1.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 51.0 kB

  • Original 59.4 kB
  • After minification 48.6 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.9 kB, which is 18% 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 51.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 658 B

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Astepahead Flooring images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 147.3 kB
  • After minification 147.3 kB
  • After compression 138.0 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 45.1 kB
  • After minification 45.1 kB
  • After compression 39.4 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. Astepaheadflooring.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.6 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (61%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Astepahead Flooring. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

astepaheadflooring.com accessibility score

74

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

astepaheadflooring.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

astepaheadflooring.com SEO score

79

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Astepaheadflooring.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 Astepaheadflooring.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 Astepahead Flooring. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: