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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

essentialexteriors.ca

Home - Essential Exteriors

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

811 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

446 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Essentialexteriors.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 811 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

essentialexteriors.ca performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,340 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.essentialexteriors.ca

811 ms

webfont.js

29 ms

style.min.css

47 ms

styles.css

51 ms

settings.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Essentialexteriors.ca, 16% (15 requests) were made to Designedroofing.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (983 ms) relates to the external source Designedroofing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (26%)

Content Size

7.3 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Essentialexteriors.ca main page is 7.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 93.3 kB

  • Original 112.0 kB
  • After minification 108.8 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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 93.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 345.8 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. Essential Exteriors images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 625.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 472.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 625.7 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 826.0 kB

  • Original 944.9 kB
  • After minification 870.6 kB
  • After compression 118.9 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. Essentialexteriors.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 826.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (44%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Essential Exteriors. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.essentialexteriors.ca

www.essentialexteriors.ca

811 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

29 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

47 ms

styles.css

styles.css

51 ms

settings.css

settings.css

65 ms

style.css

style.css

93 ms

style.css

style.css

51 ms

style.css

style.css

51 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

169 ms

shortcodes.css

shortcodes.css

104 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

77 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

96 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

76 ms

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

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117 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

113 ms

js

js

64 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

111 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

111 ms

index.js

index.js

115 ms

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115 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

jquery.easing.min.js

116 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

116 ms

waypoints-sticky.min.js

waypoints-sticky.min.js

128 ms

prettyPhoto.js

prettyPhoto.js

128 ms

isotope.pkgd.min.js

isotope.pkgd.min.js

129 ms

functions.js

functions.js

143 ms

flexslider.min.js

flexslider.min.js

130 ms

smoothscroll.js

smoothscroll.js

141 ms

comment-reply.min.js

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142 ms

api.js

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52 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

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142 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

143 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

156 ms

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index.js

155 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

155 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

313 ms

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

156 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.js

wp-mediaelement.min.js

313 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

312 ms

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designed-roofing-logo-x2.png

258 ms

OneContractor_Retina.png

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92 ms

Homepage-Header2023_mobile.jpg

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93 ms

homepageHeader2023_fallback.png

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236 ms

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93 ms

ngm.png

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93 ms

roofing.png

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93 ms

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95 ms

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OneContractorLogo_WhiteText-600x145.png

95 ms

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239 ms

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94 ms

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93 ms

Alumicor-Building-Excellence.png

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205 ms

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205 ms

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205 ms

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129 ms

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293 ms

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288 ms

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288 ms

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291 ms

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291 ms

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292 ms

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293 ms

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294 ms

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294 ms

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294 ms

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294 ms

Sika-1.png

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297 ms

Trespa.png

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298 ms

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299 ms

building_bg2.jpg

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300 ms

OneContractorLogo_WhiteText-300x72.png

OneContractorLogo_WhiteText-300x72.png

300 ms

designed-roofing-logo.png

designed-roofing-logo.png

287 ms

ngm-logo.png

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292 ms

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290 ms

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288 ms

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288 ms

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295 ms

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294 ms

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390 ms

Mapleview-1-scaled-600x400.jpg

Mapleview-1-scaled-600x400.jpg

983 ms

Starbucks-600x400.jpg

Starbucks-600x400.jpg

387 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

188 ms

js

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186 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

172 ms

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185 ms

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185 ms

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83 ms

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22 ms

Accessibility Review

essentialexteriors.ca accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

essentialexteriors.ca 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

essentialexteriors.ca SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Essentialexteriors.ca 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 Essentialexteriors.ca 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

essentialexteriors.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Essential Exteriors. 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: