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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

balzer.cc

Architectural, Engineering & Surveying Services In Virginia | Balzer And Associates

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

550 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

619 ms

balzer.cc screenshot

About Website

Welcome to balzer.cc homepage info - get ready to check Balzer best content right away, or after learning these important things about balzer.cc

With over 50 years in operation, Balzer and Associates offers comprehensive planning architectural, engineering, and surveying services across Virginia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balzer.cc page load time and found that the first response time was 550 ms and then it took 2.8 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

balzer.cc performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balzer.cc

550 ms

ga.js

47 ms

analytics.js

32 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

93 ms

styles.css

176 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Balzer.cc, 5% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (763 ms) belongs to the original domain Balzer.cc.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 75.7 kB (1%)

Content Size

5.9 MB

After Optimization

5.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Balzer.cc main page is 5.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 45.1 kB

  • Original 53.9 kB
  • After minification 43.6 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 10.4 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 45.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 13 B

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 5.5 MB

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. Balzer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 225.0 kB
  • After minification 225.0 kB
  • After compression 203.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 91.8 kB
  • After minification 91.8 kB
  • After compression 83.2 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. Balzer.cc has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (62%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balzer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

balzer.cc

balzer.cc

550 ms

ga.js

ga.js

47 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

32 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

93 ms

styles.css

styles.css

176 ms

reset.css

reset.css

222 ms

plugins.css

plugins.css

298 ms

style.css

style.css

330 ms

custom.css

custom.css

249 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

420 ms

sliderkit-core.css

sliderkit-core.css

259 ms

sliderkit-demos.css

sliderkit-demos.css

294 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

416 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

342 ms

snazzymaps.js

snazzymaps.js

366 ms

sharethis.js

sharethis.js

38 ms

sliderkit.imagefx.1.0.pack.js

sliderkit.imagefx.1.0.pack.js

370 ms

sliderkit.delaycaptions.1.1.pack.js

sliderkit.delaycaptions.1.1.pack.js

410 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

515 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

517 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

596 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

518 ms

moment.js

moment.js

581 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

518 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

518 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

519 ms

collect

collect

16 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

js

js

60 ms

Balzer_logo_fin_wt_hz.png

Balzer_logo_fin_wt_hz.png

105 ms

bg-dec.png

bg-dec.png

116 ms

DJI_0519-4.5h-200dpi.jpg

DJI_0519-4.5h-200dpi.jpg

540 ms

Model-Ct-streetscape3-May2017-5-200-dpi.jpg

Model-Ct-streetscape3-May2017-5-200-dpi.jpg

763 ms

Exterior-05-optimized-1.jpg

Exterior-05-optimized-1.jpg

429 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

225 ms

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0001-untitled-20131116-6.jpg

411 ms

Rke-County-Marketing-2019-0060-colorcorrect-4.5h-200dpi.jpg

Rke-County-Marketing-2019-0060-colorcorrect-4.5h-200dpi.jpg

295 ms

BREW-4-INTERVIEW-COLLECTION_Page_12.jpg

BREW-4-INTERVIEW-COLLECTION_Page_12.jpg

296 ms

Third-Picture.jpg

Third-Picture.jpg

361 ms

150520_spi_5103.jpg

150520_spi_5103.jpg

517 ms

Group-party.jpg

Group-party.jpg

706 ms

Accessibility Review

balzer.cc accessibility score

55

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

balzer.cc best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

balzer.cc SEO score

86

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Balzer.cc 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 Balzer.cc 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

balzer.cc

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