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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

boulder.net

Computer Systems Design Co. – Effective Technology Solutions for Government and Business – Boulder, CO

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

247 ms

Resources Loaded

727 ms

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boulder.net page load time and found that the first response time was 247 ms and then it took 2.3 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

boulder.net performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,100 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

boulder.net

247 ms

css

25 ms

styles.css

115 ms

csdco_01.jpg

346 ms

dot_clear.gif

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Boulder.net, 10% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 10% (1 request) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (406 ms) belongs to the original domain Boulder.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 12.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

221.9 kB

After Optimization

209.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Boulder.net main page is 221.9 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 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 212.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 6.2 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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 1.6 kB, which is 26% 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 4.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 212.3 kB
  • After minification 207.1 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. Boulder images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 3.4 kB
  • After minification 2.6 kB
  • After compression 527 B

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. Boulder.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boulder. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

boulder.net

boulder.net

247 ms

css

css

25 ms

styles.css

styles.css

115 ms

csdco_01.jpg

csdco_01.jpg

346 ms

dot_clear.gif

dot_clear.gif

70 ms

line-above-contact.jpg

line-above-contact.jpg

105 ms

csdco_03.jpg

csdco_03.jpg

56 ms

csdco_02.jpg

csdco_02.jpg

406 ms

csdco_04.jpg

csdco_04.jpg

206 ms

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6xK3dSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3qOK7g.ttf

9 ms

Accessibility Review

boulder.net accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Best Practices

boulder.net best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

boulder.net SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Boulder.net 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 Boulder.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

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