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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

carpetprofessor.blog

Carpet Selection and Buying Guide 2023 – Carpet Professor

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

608 ms

Page Rendered

997 ms

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About Website

Welcome to carpetprofessor.blog homepage info - get ready to check Carpet Professor best content right away, or after learning these important things about carpetprofessor.blog

I’ve been a trusted consumer advocate since 1998 and a third generation carpet professional. I wrote the book about “How to Buy Carpet Wisely” and have sold thousands of eBooks over the past 15 years....

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carpetprofessor.blog page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 1.6 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

carpetprofessor.blog performance score

44

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

carpetprofessor.blog

12 ms

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23 ms

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96 ms

94 ms

style.css

127 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Carpetprofessor.blog, 18% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.wp.com and 15% (8 requests) were made to S0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (469 ms) relates to the external source Polldaddy.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 95.4 kB (23%)

Content Size

416.9 kB

After Optimization

321.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Carpetprofessor.blog main page is 416.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 187.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 91.7 kB

  • Original 124.8 kB
  • After minification 122.5 kB
  • After compression 33.0 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 91.7 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 49.1 kB
  • After minification 47.0 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. Carpet Professor images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 187.5 kB
  • After minification 187.5 kB
  • After compression 186.3 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 289 B

  • Original 55.5 kB
  • After minification 55.5 kB
  • After compression 55.2 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. Carpetprofessor.blog has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (63%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carpet Professor. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

carpetprofessor.blog accessibility score

87

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

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

Best Practices

carpetprofessor.blog 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

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

carpetprofessor.blog SEO score

92

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

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 Carpetprofessor.blog 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 Carpetprofessor.blog 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Carpet Professor. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: