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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

gaffordbuilders.com

Custom Home Builder | Baton Rouge | Gafford Builders

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

118 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

68 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gaffordbuilders.com page load time and found that the first response time was 118 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gaffordbuilders.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,690 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gaffordbuilders.com

118 ms

minified.js

42 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

41 ms

polyfill.min.js

765 ms

component.min.css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gaffordbuilders.com, 33% (15 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com and 29% (13 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (881 ms) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 762.1 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

674.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Gaffordbuilders.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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 913.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 713.0 kB

  • Original 913.8 kB
  • After minification 912.0 kB
  • After compression 200.8 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 713.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 943 B

  • Original 218.2 kB
  • After minification 217.3 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. Gafford Builders images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 304.3 kB
  • After minification 304.3 kB
  • After compression 256.2 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 48.1 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (24%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gafford Builders. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gaffordbuilders.com accessibility score

89

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

gaffordbuilders.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gaffordbuilders.com SEO score

91

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

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

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 Gaffordbuilders.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 Gaffordbuilders.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 Gafford Builders. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: