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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

build4ucontractors.com

Home Renovation Toronto | general contractor | interior painting and flooring

Page Load Speed

902 ms in total

First Response

185 ms

Resources Loaded

549 ms

Page Rendered

168 ms

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About Website

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Toronto general contracting services. Areas of general contracting expertise include finished basements, whole home renovations, fresh paint, custom-built extensions, new kitchens, permits and design ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Build4ucontractors.com page load time and found that the first response time was 185 ms and then it took 717 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

build4ucontractors.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

build4ucontractors.com

185 ms

styles.css

68 ms

meter.asp

39 ms

ga.js

9 ms

maingrad.gif

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Build4ucontractors.com, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to S34.sitemeter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (290 ms) belongs to the original domain Build4ucontractors.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.9 kB (10%)

Content Size

103.8 kB

After Optimization

93.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Build4ucontractors.com main page is 103.8 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 72.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 12.8 kB
  • After minification 11.2 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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 13% 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 9.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 72.0 kB
  • After minification 70.9 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. Build4u Contractor S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-27%

Potential reduce by 499 B

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Build4ucontractors.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 499 B or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Build4u Contractor S. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

build4ucontractors.com

build4ucontractors.com

185 ms

styles.css

styles.css

68 ms

meter.asp

meter.asp

39 ms

ga.js

ga.js

9 ms

maingrad.gif

maingrad.gif

69 ms

bigLogo.gif

bigLogo.gif

132 ms

central_bg.jpg

central_bg.jpg

132 ms

leftMenuBg.gif

leftMenuBg.gif

135 ms

logo_pict.jpg

logo_pict.jpg

223 ms

paint.gif

paint.gif

135 ms

basement.gif

basement.gif

146 ms

kitchen.gif

kitchen.gif

197 ms

bathrooms.gif

bathrooms.gif

220 ms

flooring.gif

flooring.gif

203 ms

fence.gif

fence.gif

203 ms

duct_img.gif

duct_img.gif

213 ms

gallery_img_1.gif

gallery_img_1.gif

265 ms

gallery_img_2.gif

gallery_img_2.gif

271 ms

gallery_img_3.gif

gallery_img_3.gif

271 ms

kitchens.jpg

kitchens.jpg

278 ms

introducing.jpg

introducing.jpg

285 ms

blog1.jpg

blog1.jpg

290 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

build4ucontractors.com accessibility score

87

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

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

build4ucontractors.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

build4ucontractors.com SEO score

69

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

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Build4ucontractors.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 Build4ucontractors.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

build4ucontractors.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Build4u Contractor S. 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: