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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

contractorexpress.com

Long Island Building Materials & Construction Supply Contractor: CE

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

837 ms

Page Rendered

374 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Contractorexpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

contractorexpress.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.247

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

contractorexpress.com

90 ms

contractorexpress.com

143 ms

gtm.js

75 ms

css

53 ms

conx.css

96 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Contractorexpress.com, 20% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (297 ms) belongs to the original domain Contractorexpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 356.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Contractorexpress.com main page is 5.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 21.9 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 17.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 413 B

  • Original 5.0 MB
  • After minification 5.0 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. Contractor Express images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 278.1 kB

  • Original 375.6 kB
  • After minification 343.4 kB
  • After compression 97.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 278.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 60.1 kB

  • Original 70.5 kB
  • After minification 51.3 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. Contractorexpress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 60.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (23%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Contractor Express. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

contractorexpress.com

contractorexpress.com

90 ms

contractorexpress.com

contractorexpress.com

143 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

75 ms

css

css

53 ms

conx.css

conx.css

96 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

177 ms

jquery.cycle2.js

jquery.cycle2.js

175 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

224 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

124 ms

colorbox.css

colorbox.css

135 ms

jquery.scolorbox.js

jquery.scolorbox.js

149 ms

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90 ms

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99 ms

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106 ms

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106 ms

header_logo.svg

header_logo.svg

79 ms

X.svg

X.svg

82 ms

social-facebook.svg

social-facebook.svg

80 ms

social-twitter.svg

social-twitter.svg

80 ms

social-linkedin.svg

social-linkedin.svg

75 ms

social-instagram.svg

social-instagram.svg

80 ms

social-houzz.svg

social-houzz.svg

112 ms

social-pinterest.svg

social-pinterest.svg

101 ms

bars.png

bars.png

45 ms

orange-chevron.jpg

orange-chevron.jpg

32 ms

text_logo_white.svg

text_logo_white.svg

45 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

185 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

268 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

249 ms

phpThumb.php

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284 ms

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213 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

273 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

224 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

275 ms

home-about.png

home-about.png

267 ms

home-whyCE1.png

home-whyCE1.png

297 ms

home-design.png

home-design.png

293 ms

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45 ms

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68 ms

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30 ms

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210 ms

Accessibility Review

contractorexpress.com accessibility score

64

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

contractorexpress.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

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

contractorexpress.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

    UTF-8

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

contractorexpress.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Contractor Express. 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: