Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

forerunnersigns.com

Top Kansas City Sign Company | Monument & Shop Signs Near Me | Forerunner Signs & Graphics

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forerunnersigns.com page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forerunnersigns.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value860 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

56/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forerunnersigns.com

44 ms

forerunnersigns.com

1633 ms

style.min.css

40 ms

theme.min.css

59 ms

header-footer.min.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Forerunnersigns.com, 14% (10 requests) were made to Lh3.googleusercontent.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Forerunnersigns.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 787.4 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Forerunnersigns.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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 946.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 680.9 kB

  • Original 791.8 kB
  • After minification 783.4 kB
  • After compression 110.9 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 680.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 105.2 kB

  • Original 946.0 kB
  • After minification 840.8 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. Obviously, Forerunner Signs needs image optimization as it can save up to 105.2 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 945 B

  • Original 89.4 kB
  • After minification 89.4 kB
  • After compression 88.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 407 B

  • Original 59.4 kB
  • After minification 59.4 kB
  • After compression 59.0 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. Forerunnersigns.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (50%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forerunner Signs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

forerunnersigns.com accessibility score

82

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

forerunnersigns.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

forerunnersigns.com SEO score

82

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

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