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Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

builditsolar.com

BuildItSolar: Solar energy projects for Do It Yourselfers to save money and reduce pollution

Page Load Speed

892 ms in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

416 ms

Page Rendered

417 ms

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About Website

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Build It Solar will help people with Do It Yourself skills build solar projects that save money and reduce pollution. It is a "hands-on" site with detailed plans for solar projects including solar spa...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Builditsolar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 833 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

builditsolar.com performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

builditsolar.com

59 ms

builditsolar.com

83 ms

Site.css

31 ms

menu_style.css

36 ms

FullLogo.jpg

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Builditsolar.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (127 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 70.8 kB (16%)

Content Size

434.4 kB

After Optimization

363.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Builditsolar.com main page is 434.4 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 262.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 56.1 kB

  • Original 69.8 kB
  • After minification 50.1 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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 19.7 kB, which is 28% 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 56.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 262.7 kB
  • After minification 250.9 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. Build It Solar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 77 B

  • Original 97.9 kB
  • After minification 97.9 kB
  • After compression 97.8 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

-72%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 4.0 kB
  • After minification 2.7 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Builditsolar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

34

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Build It Solar. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

builditsolar.com

builditsolar.com

59 ms

builditsolar.com

builditsolar.com

83 ms

Site.css

Site.css

31 ms

menu_style.css

menu_style.css

36 ms

FullLogo.jpg

FullLogo.jpg

51 ms

SolShed1.jpg

SolShed1.jpg

35 ms

HybridGen.jpg

HybridGen.jpg

35 ms

img16.jpg

img16.jpg

36 ms

img76.jpg

img76.jpg

37 ms

img54.jpg

img54.jpg

48 ms

img7C.jpg

img7C.jpg

42 ms

img110.jpg

img110.jpg

44 ms

img116.jpg

img116.jpg

47 ms

imgF8.jpg

imgF8.jpg

46 ms

img121.jpg

img121.jpg

52 ms

pool_h4.jpg

pool_h4.jpg

53 ms

img8.jpg

img8.jpg

54 ms

img11D.jpg

img11D.jpg

57 ms

img10C.jpg

img10C.jpg

56 ms

imgF.jpg

imgF.jpg

56 ms

img25.jpg

img25.jpg

61 ms

img19.jpg

img19.jpg

62 ms

Wheel.jpg

Wheel.jpg

63 ms

BubbleWrapWater.jpg

BubbleWrapWater.jpg

65 ms

img9.jpg

img9.jpg

66 ms

waterp1.jpg

waterp1.jpg

67 ms

img12D.jpg

img12D.jpg

72 ms

img23.jpg

img23.jpg

71 ms

P1030001.JPG

P1030001.JPG

73 ms

Space_36.jpg

Space_36.jpg

76 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

84 ms

DuctSealing.jpg

DuctSealing.jpg

72 ms

seperator.gif

seperator.gif

52 ms

index.103.jpg

index.103.jpg

56 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

127 ms

ga.js

ga.js

14 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

10 ms

Accessibility Review

builditsolar.com accessibility score

84

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

builditsolar.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

builditsolar.com SEO score

82

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Builditsolar.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 Builditsolar.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

builditsolar.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Build It Solar. 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: