Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

engineers-plus.com

Engineering Firm Since 1998 : Richmond, Virginia

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

244 ms

Resources Loaded

635 ms

Page Rendered

160 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Engineers-plus.com page load time and found that the first response time was 244 ms and then it took 795 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

engineers-plus.com performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.048

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

engineers-plus.com

244 ms

js

73 ms

css

36 ms

font-awesome.min.css

39 ms

base.css

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Engineers-plus.com, 9% (6 requests) were made to Google.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (252 ms) belongs to the original domain Engineers-plus.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 850.1 kB (26%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Engineers-plus.com main page is 3.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 40.3 kB
  • After minification 34.3 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.0 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 31.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 262.7 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Obviously, Engineers Plus needs image optimization as it can save up to 262.7 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 347.6 kB

  • Original 603.1 kB
  • After minification 586.7 kB
  • After compression 255.4 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 347.6 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 208.2 kB

  • Original 245.5 kB
  • After minification 197.3 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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. Engineers-plus.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 208.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (52%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Engineers Plus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

engineers-plus.com accessibility score

64

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

engineers-plus.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

engineers-plus.com SEO score

92

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

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 Engineers-plus.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 Engineers-plus.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 description is not detected on the main page of Engineers Plus. 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: