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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

birchheating.com

Birch Heating & Cooling, Air Conditioner & Furnace Repair & Service | Dubuque, IA 52003

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

765 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

532 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Birch Heating content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about birchheating.com

Serving Dubuque, IA area. We specialize in HVAC service, repair and maintenance of Bryant furnaces, AC (A/C), heat pumps, ductless, geothermal for people near me

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Key Findings

We analyzed Birchheating.com page load time and found that the first response time was 765 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

birchheating.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,770 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.182

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.0 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.birchheating.com

765 ms

js

126 ms

fbevents.js

61 ms

js

276 ms

gtm.js

276 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Birchheating.com, 38% (18 requests) were made to Storage.googleapis.com and 11% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (765 ms) belongs to the original domain Birchheating.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 373.0 kB (11%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Birchheating.com main page is 3.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 266.9 kB

  • Original 326.6 kB
  • After minification 321.0 kB
  • After compression 59.8 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. 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 266.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 59.2 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Birch Heating images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 42.3 kB

  • Original 518.2 kB
  • After minification 518.2 kB
  • After compression 475.9 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

-78%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 5.9 kB
  • After minification 5.9 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Birchheating.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (27%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Birch Heating. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.birchheating.com

www.birchheating.com

765 ms

js

js

126 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

61 ms

js

js

276 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

276 ms

script.js

script.js

482 ms

preload.js

preload.js

682 ms

bryant-fad-white-no-tag.png

bryant-fad-white-no-tag.png

270 ms

251382996

251382996

471 ms

js

js

239 ms

api.js

api.js

233 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

413 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

97 ms

bg-header.jpg

bg-header.jpg

232 ms

heating.jpg

heating.jpg

256 ms

cooling.jpg

cooling.jpg

343 ms

fireplaces.jpg

fireplaces.jpg

345 ms

PatioFurnitureThumbnail.jpg

PatioFurnitureThumbnail.jpg

265 ms

products-bk.jpg

products-bk.jpg

467 ms

services-bk.jpg

services-bk.jpg

264 ms

birch-logo-white-anniversary28.png

birch-logo-white-anniversary28.png

254 ms

money-falling-first-frame.jpg

money-falling-first-frame.jpg

234 ms

financing.jpg

financing.jpg

106 ms

showroom-rotator.jpg

showroom-rotator.jpg

242 ms

patios-rotator.jpg

patios-rotator.jpg

238 ms

patio-furniture-thumbnail-image.jpg

patio-furniture-thumbnail-image.jpg

232 ms

storefront-rotator.jpg

storefront-rotator.jpg

261 ms

iStock-483544857-first-frame.jpg

iStock-483544857-first-frame.jpg

240 ms

fireplaces-rotator.jpg

fireplaces-rotator.jpg

262 ms

reviews-stars.png

reviews-stars.png

244 ms

credit-cards-visa.png

credit-cards-visa.png

242 ms

credit-cards-mastercard.png

credit-cards-mastercard.png

245 ms

credit-cards-discover.png

credit-cards-discover.png

247 ms

credit-cards-amex.png

credit-cards-amex.png

249 ms

Birch-Payment-Button.png

Birch-Payment-Button.png

264 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

250 ms

google-g-icon.png

google-g-icon.png

255 ms

js

js

240 ms

js

js

239 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

214 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

186 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

186 ms

677722933-363b65720e57bc9230d1ce90d7a6fd264c5d86b1b7cbf585eb3366cb9188e1c6-d

677722933-363b65720e57bc9230d1ce90d7a6fd264c5d86b1b7cbf585eb3366cb9188e1c6-d

173 ms

fallback

fallback

25 ms

fallback__ltr.css

fallback__ltr.css

4 ms

css

css

30 ms

logo_48.png

logo_48.png

3 ms

Accessibility Review

birchheating.com accessibility score

95

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

High

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

birchheating.com 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

birchheating.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Birchheating.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 Birchheating.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

birchheating.com

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