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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

etc-web.com

Engineering ‎Consulting Firm in VA, MD & DC | ETC

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

452 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

528 ms

About Website

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ETC provides engineering and technical consulting services for structural, architectural and mechanical engineering projects in Virginia, Maryland & Washington DC.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Etc-web.com page load time and found that the first response time was 452 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

etc-web.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.253

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.etc-web.com

452 ms

simple-banner.css

131 ms

vfb-style.min.css

226 ms

style.css

315 ms

dashicons.min.css

346 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Etc-web.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.leadmanagerfx.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (718 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.leadmanagerfx.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 141.3 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Etc-web.com main page is 1.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 132.0 kB

  • Original 155.5 kB
  • After minification 141.4 kB
  • After compression 23.5 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 132.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • 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. ETC Web images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 57.3 kB
  • After minification 57.3 kB
  • After compression 56.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 107.5 kB
  • After minification 107.5 kB
  • After compression 105.9 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. Etc-web.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (57%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ETC Web. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

etc-web.com accessibility score

86

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

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

etc-web.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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

etc-web.com SEO score

86

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Etc-web.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 Etc-web.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 ETC Web. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: