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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

bullcitysigns.com

Home of the Electric Sign Experts | Bull City Signs, LLC

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

475 ms

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About Website

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Our full service sign company specializes in electric signs, lighted signs, neon signs for your business in the Durham, NC area. Call us today 919-937-9178

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bullcitysigns.com page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bullcitysigns.com performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.197

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bullcitysigns.com

37 ms

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134 ms

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36 ms

css

47 ms

front.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Bullcitysigns.com, 13% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Bullcitysigns.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 110.0 kB (11%)

Content Size

996.6 kB

After Optimization

886.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bullcitysigns.com main page is 996.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 657.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 84.9 kB

  • Original 110.2 kB
  • After minification 108.6 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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 84.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 657.1 kB
  • After minification 640.6 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. Bull City Signs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 155.4 kB
  • After minification 155.3 kB
  • After compression 152.5 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 74.0 kB
  • After minification 74.0 kB
  • After compression 68.3 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. Bullcitysigns.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (72%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bull City Signs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

bullcitysigns.com accessibility score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bullcitysigns.com best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

bullcitysigns.com SEO score

93

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

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

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 Bullcitysigns.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 Bullcitysigns.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

bullcitysigns.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bull City Signs. 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: