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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

thesigncenter.net

The Sign Center - Custom signs Business Signs Channel Letter

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

277 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesigncenter.net page load time and found that the first response time was 173 ms and then it took 1.4 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

thesigncenter.net performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,010 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.136

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesigncenter.net

173 ms

www.thesigncenter.net

213 ms

analytics.js%20(2%20hours)

15 ms

bootstrap.min.css

152 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

124 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Thesigncenter.net, 9% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (444 ms) belongs to the original domain Thesigncenter.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 365.7 kB (54%)

Content Size

673.6 kB

After Optimization

307.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thesigncenter.net main page is 673.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 247.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 25.5 kB
  • After minification 20.7 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 4.8 kB, which is 19% 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 19.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 135 B

  • Original 181.8 kB
  • After minification 181.7 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. The Sign Center images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 139.0 kB

  • Original 218.9 kB
  • After minification 218.9 kB
  • After compression 80.0 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 139.0 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 206.7 kB

  • Original 247.4 kB
  • After minification 241.3 kB
  • After compression 40.7 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. Thesigncenter.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 206.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (64%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Sign Center. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thesigncenter.net accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

thesigncenter.net best practices score

58

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thesigncenter.net SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thesigncenter.net 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 Thesigncenter.net main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 The Sign Center. 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: