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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 72

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

epessupplycompany.com

Auto Repair & Tire Shop in Blackstone, VA | Epes Supply Company

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

255 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

357 ms

About Website

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Epes Supply Company is a family owned auto repair shop delivering honest and professional services to Blackstone, VA, Lynchburg, VA, Petersburg, VA and the surrounding areas. Schedule your appointment...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Epessupplycompany.com page load time and found that the first response time was 255 ms and then it took 1.6 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

epessupplycompany.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,380 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.124

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

epessupplycompany.com

255 ms

www.epessupplycompany.com

68 ms

slick.css

23 ms

slick-theme.css

244 ms

default.css

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Epessupplycompany.com, 17% (13 requests) were made to Assets.netdrivenwebs.com and 10% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (439 ms) relates to the external source C1.nd-cdn.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 221.6 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Epessupplycompany.com main page is 1.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 703.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 71.7 kB

  • Original 99.9 kB
  • After minification 99.8 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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 71.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 48.3 kB

  • Original 703.3 kB
  • After minification 655.0 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. Epes Supply Company images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 74.2 kB

  • Original 309.7 kB
  • After minification 309.7 kB
  • After compression 235.6 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 74.2 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 27.5 kB

  • Original 114.8 kB
  • After minification 114.7 kB
  • After compression 87.3 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. Epessupplycompany.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.5 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (56%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Epes Supply Company. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

epessupplycompany.com accessibility score

81

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

epessupplycompany.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

epessupplycompany.com SEO score

72

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

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 Epessupplycompany.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 Epessupplycompany.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 Epes Supply Company. 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: