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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

northerngroundsource.com

Cold Climate Geothermal Design and Contracting | Northern Ground Source

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

256 ms

Resources Loaded

838 ms

Page Rendered

186 ms

About Website

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Certified GeoExchange Designer of ground source heat pump systems for the distinct cold climate requirements of the northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northerngroundsource.com page load time and found that the first response time was 256 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northerngroundsource.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northerngroundsource.com

256 ms

primary.css

64 ms

homepage.css

125 ms

lightbox.css

121 ms

lightbox.js

126 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Northerngroundsource.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (320 ms) belongs to the original domain Northerngroundsource.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 12.8 kB (7%)

Content Size

188.4 kB

After Optimization

175.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northerngroundsource.com main page is 188.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 151.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 14.1 kB
  • After minification 13.5 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 9.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 91 B

  • Original 151.0 kB
  • After minification 150.9 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. Northern Ground Source images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 20.3 kB
  • After minification 20.3 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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 2.5 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 715 B

  • Original 3.0 kB
  • After minification 3.0 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. Northerngroundsource.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 715 B or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

34

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northern Ground Source. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

northerngroundsource.com accessibility score

84

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

northerngroundsource.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

northerngroundsource.com SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Northerngroundsource.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 Northerngroundsource.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 Northern Ground Source. 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: