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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

buildthatgreen.com

Build That Green| Healthy Yard & Home Improvement Advice

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

117 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

336 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buildthatgreen.com page load time and found that the first response time was 117 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buildthatgreen.com performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

75/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buildthatgreen.com

117 ms

www.buildthatgreen.com

378 ms

super-transition-slideshow.js

109 ms

vertical-scroll-recent-post.js

164 ms

jquery.js

220 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Buildthatgreen.com, 9% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Syndication.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (378 ms) belongs to the original domain Buildthatgreen.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 106.7 kB (35%)

Content Size

309.2 kB

After Optimization

202.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buildthatgreen.com main page is 309.2 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 161.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 55.1 kB

  • Original 68.8 kB
  • After minification 68.0 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. 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 55.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 46.0 kB

  • Original 161.8 kB
  • After minification 115.7 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. Obviously, Build That Green needs image optimization as it can save up to 46.0 kB or 28% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 65.0 kB
  • After minification 64.8 kB
  • After compression 62.8 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

-25%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 13.7 kB
  • After minification 13.7 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. Buildthatgreen.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.4 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (60%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Build That Green. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

buildthatgreen.com

buildthatgreen.com

117 ms

www.buildthatgreen.com

www.buildthatgreen.com

378 ms

super-transition-slideshow.js

super-transition-slideshow.js

109 ms

vertical-scroll-recent-post.js

vertical-scroll-recent-post.js

164 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

220 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

165 ms

stray_ajax.js

stray_ajax.js

168 ms

grey_blocks.css

grey_blocks.css

169 ms

cforms.js

cforms.js

168 ms

jquery-1.2.1.pack.js

jquery-1.2.1.pack.js

301 ms

jquery.embedquicktime.js

jquery.embedquicktime.js

324 ms

sf-blue.css

sf-blue.css

230 ms

style.css

style.css

231 ms

layout.css

layout.css

229 ms

ie.css

ie.css

277 ms

custom.css

custom.css

283 ms

plugin.css

plugin.css

285 ms

datatables.css

datatables.css

285 ms

calendar.css

calendar.css

107 ms

lock.png

lock.png

123 ms

headergrad.png

headergrad.png

72 ms

headerhouse.png

headerhouse.png

59 ms

icon-rss.gif

icon-rss.gif

57 ms

headerface.png

headerface.png

123 ms

logo.png

logo.png

115 ms

postedfolder.png

postedfolder.png

116 ms

IMG_0001-150x150.jpg

IMG_0001-150x150.jpg

117 ms

attic-flipped-150x150.jpg

attic-flipped-150x150.jpg

167 ms

Squirrel-Treefrog-Hyla-Squirella-150x150.jpg

Squirrel-Treefrog-Hyla-Squirella-150x150.jpg

167 ms

ceramic-toad-house.png

ceramic-toad-house.png

236 ms

solar-address-Sun-Mate-300x300.jpg

solar-address-Sun-Mate-300x300.jpg

181 ms

featurearrow.png

featurearrow.png

173 ms

askbg.png

askbg.png

177 ms

sidebargrad.png

sidebargrad.png

275 ms

bluetriangle.png

bluetriangle.png

232 ms

footergrad.png

footergrad.png

235 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

21 ms

ga.js

ga.js

35 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

24 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

17 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

19 ms

settings

settings

103 ms

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

3 ms

embeds

embeds

33 ms

embeds

embeds

57 ms

embeds

embeds

58 ms

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tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html

25 ms

Accessibility Review

buildthatgreen.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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

buildthatgreen.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

buildthatgreen.com SEO score

71

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

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 Buildthatgreen.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 Buildthatgreen.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

buildthatgreen.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Build That Green. 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: