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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

carolinaimprovements.com

Carolina Improvements: North Carolina Home Improvement Company

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

377 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

699 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carolinaimprovements.com page load time and found that the first response time was 377 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 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

carolinaimprovements.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,430 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.137

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

carolinaimprovements.com

377 ms

5t8qc.css

20 ms

5t8qc.js

36 ms

5t8qc.css

34 ms

js

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Carolinaimprovements.com, 9% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Pro.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (377 ms) belongs to the original domain Carolinaimprovements.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.8 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Carolinaimprovements.com main page is 1.4 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 46.9 kB

  • Original 63.0 kB
  • After minification 57.3 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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 46.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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. Carolina Improvements images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 17.2 kB

  • Original 254.7 kB
  • After minification 254.1 kB
  • After compression 237.5 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 28.8 kB
  • After minification 28.8 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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. Carolinaimprovements.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (47%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carolina Improvements. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

carolinaimprovements.com

carolinaimprovements.com

377 ms

5t8qc.css

5t8qc.css

20 ms

5t8qc.js

5t8qc.js

36 ms

5t8qc.css

5t8qc.css

34 ms

js

js

67 ms

js

js

113 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

35 ms

1234567965183

1234567965183

314 ms

all.css

all.css

64 ms

js

js

129 ms

doubletaptogo.js

doubletaptogo.js

32 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

32 ms

review-widget.js

review-widget.js

28 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

23 ms

api.js

api.js

47 ms

wp-gallery-custom-links.js

wp-gallery-custom-links.js

133 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

20 ms

5t8qc.css

5t8qc.css

22 ms

featherlight.js

featherlight.js

19 ms

featherlight.gallery.js

featherlight.gallery.js

19 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

27 ms

widget

widget

122 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

118 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

47 ms

hardy-cropped-1.jpg

hardy-cropped-1.jpg

42 ms

blue-seal-187-130-carolinaimprovements-33114318.png

blue-seal-187-130-carolinaimprovements-33114318.png

181 ms

TheImprovementStore7-01-1.png

TheImprovementStore7-01-1.png

44 ms

billboard-home.jpg

billboard-home.jpg

42 ms

billboard-home-roofing.jpg

billboard-home-roofing.jpg

114 ms

billboard-fencing2.jpg

billboard-fencing2.jpg

44 ms

billboard-deck.jpg

billboard-deck.jpg

43 ms

billboard-windows.jpg

billboard-windows.jpg

115 ms

billboard-siding.jpg

billboard-siding.jpg

114 ms

billboard-gutters.jpg

billboard-gutters.jpg

115 ms

carolina-improvments.png

carolina-improvments.png

113 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

113 ms

mapquest.png

mapquest.png

178 ms

bbb.png

bbb.png

116 ms

google.png

google.png

177 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

178 ms

binged.png

binged.png

178 ms

yelp.png

yelp.png

177 ms

yahoo.png

yahoo.png

178 ms

yellowpages.png

yellowpages.png

180 ms

manta.png

manta.png

179 ms

superpages.png

superpages.png

180 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

100 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

165 ms

fa-light-300.woff

fa-light-300.woff

165 ms

redhouse1-1.jpg

redhouse1-1.jpg

142 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

134 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

113 ms

css

css

111 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

120 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

56 ms

font

font

129 ms

font

font

138 ms

Accessibility Review

carolinaimprovements.com accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

carolinaimprovements.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

carolinaimprovements.com SEO score

89

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Carolinaimprovements.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 Carolinaimprovements.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

carolinaimprovements.com

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