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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

lbmjournal.com

LBM Journal – Strategies for Lumber & Building Material Pros - LBM Journal

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

468 ms

About Website

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Industry trends, data, products and best practices for lumberyards, building material distributors, wholesalers manufacturers, and service providers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lbmjournal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lbmjournal.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,470 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.056

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lbmjournal.com

32 ms

lbmjournal.com

677 ms

1515848.js

143 ms

valet-public.css

64 ms

font-awesome.css

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Lbmjournal.com, 21% (23 requests) were made to Lbmjournal.advertserve.com and 17% (19 requests) were made to Assets-lbmjournal-com.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (677 ms) belongs to the original domain Lbmjournal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 383.4 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Lbmjournal.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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 862.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 382.4 kB

  • Original 446.4 kB
  • After minification 424.0 kB
  • After compression 63.9 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 382.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 800 B

  • Original 862.8 kB
  • After minification 862.0 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. LBM Journal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 192 B

  • Original 77.9 kB
  • After minification 77.9 kB
  • After compression 77.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (73%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of LBM Journal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

lbmjournal.com accessibility score

95

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

Best Practices

lbmjournal.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

lbmjournal.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Lbmjournal.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 Lbmjournal.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 LBM Journal. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: