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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

balkema.com

Industrial and Commercial Construction, Municipal Projects, Kalamazoo, MI

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

841 ms

Resources Loaded

990 ms

Page Rendered

128 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Balkema content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about balkema.com

Balkema Construction is a full service construction company located in Kalamazoo Michigan. We specialize in commercial, municipal, industrial, and design build construction.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balkema.com page load time and found that the first response time was 841 ms and then it took 1.1 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

balkema.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balkema.com

841 ms

px.js

64 ms

px.js

95 ms

min.js

12 ms

background-bg-top.jpg

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Balkema.com, 31% (4 requests) were made to I3.cdn-image.com and 23% (3 requests) were made to I4.cdn-image.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (841 ms) belongs to the original domain Balkema.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 47.0 kB (32%)

Content Size

145.4 kB

After Optimization

98.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Balkema.com main page is 145.4 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 88.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 40.6 kB

  • Original 47.6 kB
  • After minification 45.5 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 40.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 775 B

  • Original 88.9 kB
  • After minification 88.1 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. Balkema images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 8.9 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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 5.6 kB or 63% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balkema. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

balkema.com

balkema.com

841 ms

px.js

px.js

64 ms

px.js

px.js

95 ms

min.js

min.js

12 ms

background-bg-top.jpg

background-bg-top.jpg

17 ms

sprite.gif

sprite.gif

19 ms

left-tran-img.png

left-tran-img.png

14 ms

3899_netsol-3-business3.jpg

3899_netsol-3-business3.jpg

34 ms

3905_netsol-3-business5.jpg

3905_netsol-3-business5.jpg

18 ms

right-tran-img.png

right-tran-img.png

4 ms

div-bg-top.gif

div-bg-top.gif

17 ms

netsol-logo.jpg

netsol-logo.jpg

9 ms

3900_netsol-3-business1.jpg

3900_netsol-3-business1.jpg

31 ms

Accessibility Review

balkema.com accessibility score

92

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

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

balkema.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

balkema.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Balkema.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 Balkema.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

balkema.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Balkema. 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: