Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

eppsplumbing.com

Epps Plumbing and Heating, Inc. – Plumbing and Heating Services

Page Load Speed

9.2 sec in total

First Response

181 ms

Resources Loaded

8.3 sec

Page Rendered

754 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eppsplumbing.com page load time and found that the first response time was 181 ms and then it took 9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eppsplumbing.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,260 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eppsplumbing.com

181 ms

eppsplumbing.com

5467 ms

frontend.min.css

285 ms

css

32 ms

utilities.css

192 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Eppsplumbing.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Eppsplumbing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 531.8 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Eppsplumbing.com main page is 1.9 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 651.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 154.0 kB

  • Original 185.0 kB
  • After minification 181.7 kB
  • After compression 31.0 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 154.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 651.0 kB
  • After minification 636.7 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. Epps Plumbing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 67.9 kB

  • Original 505.7 kB
  • After minification 505.7 kB
  • After compression 437.8 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 67.9 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 295.6 kB

  • Original 519.7 kB
  • After minification 519.1 kB
  • After compression 224.0 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. Eppsplumbing.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 295.6 kB or 57% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (85%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Epps Plumbing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

eppsplumbing.com accessibility score

97

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

eppsplumbing.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

eppsplumbing.com SEO score

79

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Eppsplumbing.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 Eppsplumbing.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 Epps Plumbing. 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: