Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

smithmunicipal.com

Smith Municipal Signs & Supplies | Houston, TX | Signage for your city or custom project.

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

156 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

313 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smithmunicipal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 156 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smithmunicipal.com performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

74/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.104

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smithmunicipal.com

156 ms

site_global.css

57 ms

master_a-master.css

105 ms

index.css

110 ms

museutils.js

119 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Smithmunicipal.com, 16% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 13% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (782 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 32.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

364.6 kB

After Optimization

332.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Smithmunicipal.com main page is 364.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 187.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 25.6 kB
  • After minification 18.7 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.9 kB, which is 27% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 20.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 187.3 kB
  • After minification 179.3 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. Smith Municipal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 145.4 kB
  • After minification 145.4 kB
  • After compression 142.6 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 998 B

  • Original 6.3 kB
  • After minification 6.3 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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. Smithmunicipal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 998 B or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (35%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smith Municipal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smithmunicipal.com accessibility score

83

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.

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

smithmunicipal.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

smithmunicipal.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Smithmunicipal.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 Smithmunicipal.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 Smith Municipal. 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: