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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

followthesun.com

Solar Tracker Project Design & Installation | RP Construction Services

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

214 ms

Resources Loaded

812 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

followthesun.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Followthesun.com page load time and found that the first response time was 214 ms and then it took 812 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

followthesun.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,220 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.041

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

followthesun.com

214 ms

www.rpcs.com

392 ms

gtm.js

52 ms

js

172 ms

aos.js

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Followthesun.com, 86% (31 requests) were made to Rpcs.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (392 ms) relates to the external source Rpcs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.2 kB (2%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Followthesun.com main page is 5.2 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 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 95.1 kB

  • Original 115.2 kB
  • After minification 112.5 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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. 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 95.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 4.8 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. Followthesun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 267.7 kB
  • After minification 267.7 kB
  • After compression 266.6 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 15 (44%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Followthesun. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

followthesun.com

followthesun.com

214 ms

www.rpcs.com

www.rpcs.com

392 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

52 ms

js

js

172 ms

aos.js

aos.js

34 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

37 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

32 ms

navigation.js

navigation.js

55 ms

custom.js

custom.js

34 ms

api.js

api.js

55 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

33 ms

cropped-RP_Circle.png

cropped-RP_Circle.png

73 ms

NT_Nevertire_003.jpg

NT_Nevertire_003.jpg

74 ms

KMZ.jpg

KMZ.jpg

88 ms

layout.jpg

layout.jpg

84 ms

stock-and-row-kit.jpg

stock-and-row-kit.jpg

85 ms

just-in-time-deliver.jpg

just-in-time-deliver.jpg

82 ms

prep-and-training-1.jpg

prep-and-training-1.jpg

92 ms

rpsc-home-our-products-3.jpg

rpsc-home-our-products-3.jpg

91 ms

rpsc-home-our-services-2.jpg

rpsc-home-our-services-2.jpg

93 ms

BG-Arrow-Graphic-Yellow.svg

BG-Arrow-Graphic-Yellow.svg

95 ms

rpcs-home-our-impact-3.jpg

rpcs-home-our-impact-3.jpg

96 ms

arrow-right-navy-200.svg

arrow-right-navy-200.svg

155 ms

arrow-long-right.svg

arrow-long-right.svg

156 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

46 ms

arrow-right-white.svg

arrow-right-white.svg

82 ms

BG-Arrow-Graphic-Navy.svg

BG-Arrow-Graphic-Navy.svg

81 ms

rpcs-home-image-6.jpg

rpcs-home-image-6.jpg

79 ms

rpcs-home-image-2.jpg

rpcs-home-image-2.jpg

79 ms

rpcs-home-image-5.jpg

rpcs-home-image-5.jpg

84 ms

BG-Arrow-Graphic-L-Gray.svg

BG-Arrow-Graphic-L-Gray.svg

83 ms

rpcs-home-image-4.jpg

rpcs-home-image-4.jpg

88 ms

Screenshot-2024-05-24-115620.png

Screenshot-2024-05-24-115620.png

89 ms

Inverter-Terms-e1716392196668.jpeg

Inverter-Terms-e1716392196668.jpeg

84 ms

Unknown-3-copy.jpg

Unknown-3-copy.jpg

86 ms

BG-Arrow-Graphic-Gray.svg

BG-Arrow-Graphic-Gray.svg

84 ms

Accessibility Review

followthesun.com accessibility score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

followthesun.com best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

followthesun.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

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

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 Followthesun.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 Followthesun.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

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