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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

blog.fortressrailing.com

Blog | Deck Ideas, Outdoor Trends & Applications | Fortress

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.fortressrailing.com page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.fortressrailing.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,530 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.4 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.fortressrailing.com

39 ms

441 ms

all.min.css

28 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.js

93 ms

ykd8vjc.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.fortressrailing.com, 55% (60 requests) were made to Fortressbp.com and 18% (20 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (640 ms) relates to the external source Fortressbp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 312.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.fortressrailing.com main page is 2.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 84.0 kB

  • Original 102.2 kB
  • After minification 81.8 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 20.3 kB, which is 20% 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 84.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 213.3 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Blog Fortress Railing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 84.3 kB
  • After minification 84.3 kB
  • After compression 70.7 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 13.6 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 30.4 kB
  • After minification 30.4 kB
  • After compression 28.5 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. Blog.fortressrailing.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (46%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

46

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Fortress Railing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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blog.fortressrailing.com

39 ms

441 ms

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28 ms

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93 ms

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52 ms

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140 ms

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55 ms

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188 ms

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52 ms

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203 ms

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203 ms

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201 ms

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203 ms

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15 ms

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278 ms

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9 ms

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21 ms

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218 ms

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367 ms

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265 ms

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266 ms

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263 ms

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Accessibility Review

blog.fortressrailing.com accessibility score

64

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

Best Practices

blog.fortressrailing.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

blog.fortressrailing.com SEO score

75

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Blog.fortressrailing.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 Blog.fortressrailing.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

blog.fortressrailing.com

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