Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

bigelowoil.com

Bigelow Oil & Energy | Home Heating Oil Delivery & HVAC Repair / Install

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

214 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

327 ms

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About Website

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Reliable heating oil delivery and HVAC service repair / installation / sales from one of Boston's oldest oil delivery companies - Bigelow Oil & Energy.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bigelowoil.com page load time and found that the first response time was 214 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bigelowoil.com performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.096

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bigelowoil.com

214 ms

bigelowoil.com

277 ms

bigelowenergy.com

381 ms

autoptimize_94b063a7c1758feab7f276b8483e1c3f.css

128 ms

autoptimize_d0cc25ddcc831ab21d5dfce4e89ee0b2.css

194 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Bigelowoil.com, 61% (17 requests) were made to Bigelowenergy.com and 11% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (473 ms) relates to the external source Bigelowenergy.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 181.3 kB (26%)

Content Size

697.7 kB

After Optimization

516.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Bigelowoil.com main page is 697.7 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 354.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 164.7 kB

  • Original 197.8 kB
  • After minification 197.4 kB
  • After compression 33.1 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 164.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 354.1 kB
  • After minification 337.7 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. Bigelow Oil images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 80 B

  • Original 125.4 kB
  • After minification 125.4 kB
  • After compression 125.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 105 B

  • Original 20.4 kB
  • After minification 20.4 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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. Bigelowoil.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (30%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bigelow Oil. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bigelowoil.com accessibility score

68

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.

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

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

bigelowoil.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

bigelowoil.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bigelowoil.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 Bigelowoil.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 data is detected on the main page of Bigelow Oil. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: