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Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

fluesbrothers.com

The Flues Brothers Chimney Sweeps - Serving Southeastern Massachusetts

Page Load Speed

20.4 sec in total

First Response

126 ms

Resources Loaded

20.2 sec

Page Rendered

73 ms

About Website

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A family owned and operated full service chimney sweep based in Lakeville, serving Southeastern Massachusetts.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fluesbrothers.com page load time and found that the first response time was 126 ms and then it took 20.3 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

fluesbrothers.com performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fluesbrothers.com

126 ms

fluesbrothers.com

324 ms

spacer.gif

113 ms

fbstudy2011_r1_c1_s1.jpg

285 ms

fbstudy2011_r2_c1_s1.jpg

175 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Fluesbrothers.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Angieslist.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.6 sec) relates to the external source Angieslist.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 11.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

153.2 kB

After Optimization

141.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Fluesbrothers.com main page is 153.2 kB. 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 137.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 16.1 kB
  • After minification 15.4 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 11.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 20 B

  • Original 137.1 kB
  • After minification 137.1 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. Flues Brothers images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (52%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

15

  • Images

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Flues Brothers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

fluesbrothers.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

fluesbrothers.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

fluesbrothers.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fluesbrothers.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Fluesbrothers.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Flues Brothers. 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: