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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

betterbuildersiowa.com

Better Builders | Iowa Deck Builder - Pro-Certified With Pro Materials

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

984 ms

Page Rendered

333 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Betterbuildersiowa.com page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

betterbuildersiowa.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

betterbuildersiowa.com

56 ms

www.betterbuildersiowa.com

39 ms

www.betterbuildersiowa.com

30 ms

font-awesome.min.css

67 ms

css

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Betterbuildersiowa.com, 18% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 14% (9 requests) were made to Stcdn.leadconnectorhq.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (499 ms) relates to the external source Link.veritasstrat.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 232.8 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Betterbuildersiowa.com main page is 2.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 147.1 kB

  • Original 192.7 kB
  • After minification 190.3 kB
  • After compression 45.6 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 147.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Better Builders Iowa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 61.2 kB

  • Original 214.3 kB
  • After minification 214.3 kB
  • After compression 153.1 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 61.2 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 222 B

  • Original 14.3 kB
  • After minification 14.2 kB
  • After compression 14.0 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. Betterbuildersiowa.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

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

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

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

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

betterbuildersiowa.com accessibility score

90

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

Best Practices

betterbuildersiowa.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

betterbuildersiowa.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Betterbuildersiowa.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 Betterbuildersiowa.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 description is not detected on the main page of Better Builders Iowa. 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: