Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

deckinghero.com

Decking Hero™ | Plan & Save With The Garden Decking Experts

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

250 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

916 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Deckinghero.com page load time and found that the first response time was 250 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

deckinghero.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

deckinghero.com

250 ms

www.deckinghero.com

536 ms

jquery-1.12.4-wp.js

381 ms

adsbygoogle.js

57 ms

lazyload.min.js

193 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Deckinghero.com, 28% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 67.4 kB (32%)

Content Size

212.6 kB

After Optimization

145.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Deckinghero.com main page is 212.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 84.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 64.8 kB

  • Original 84.4 kB
  • After minification 84.2 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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 64.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 62.6 kB
  • After minification 60.1 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. Decking Hero images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 43 B

  • Original 65.5 kB
  • After minification 65.5 kB
  • After compression 65.5 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (41%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Decking Hero. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

deckinghero.com accessibility score

86

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

Best Practices

deckinghero.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

deckinghero.com SEO score

91

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 Deckinghero.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 Deckinghero.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

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