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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

fortressfence.com

Fortress Building Products | Outdoor Living & Exterior Solutions

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

937 ms

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About Website

Visit fortressfence.com now to see the best up-to-date Fortress Fence content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about fortressfence.com

Fortress pushes the boundaries of outdoor living and building exteriors with innovative, sustainable and resilient products, coupled with relentless support.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fortressfence.com page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 3.1 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

fortressfence.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fortressfence.com

41 ms

fortressbp.com

346 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.js

95 ms

ykd8vjc.css

38 ms

Site.min.css

147 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Fortressfence.com, 59% (72 requests) were made to Fortressbp.com and 16% (20 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Fortressbp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 190.9 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fortressfence.com main page is 1.4 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. 75% 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 81.9 kB

  • Original 102.7 kB
  • After minification 85.3 kB
  • After compression 20.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 17.4 kB, which is 17% 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 81.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 95.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Fortress Fence 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 23.6 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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. Fortressfence.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (43%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

58

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fortress Fence. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

fortressfence.com

fortressfence.com

41 ms

fortressbp.com

fortressbp.com

346 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.js

modernizr-2.8.3.js

95 ms

ykd8vjc.css

ykd8vjc.css

38 ms

Site.min.css

Site.min.css

147 ms

js

js

64 ms

mp_linkcode.js

mp_linkcode.js

206 ms

ionicons.js

ionicons.js

63 ms

mpel.js

mpel.js

25 ms

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

221 ms

jquery.hoverIntent.min.js

jquery.hoverIntent.min.js

37 ms

lodash.min.js

lodash.min.js

82 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

183 ms

vertical-slider.js

vertical-slider.js

184 ms

inViewport.js

inViewport.js

220 ms

site.js

site.js

229 ms

nav.js

nav.js

230 ms

gsap.min.js

gsap.min.js

80 ms

ScrollMagic.min.js

ScrollMagic.min.js

82 ms

animation.gsap.js

animation.gsap.js

81 ms

debug.addIndicators.js

debug.addIndicators.js

81 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

82 ms

p.css

p.css

22 ms

hotjar-1820735.js

hotjar-1820735.js

121 ms

bat.js

bat.js

32 ms

core.js

core.js

28 ms

16010728.js

16010728.js

11 ms

16010728

16010728

290 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

32 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

69 ms

ionicons.js

ionicons.js

23 ms

fortress-logo-white.png

fortress-logo-white.png

206 ms

fbp-yellow-bar.webp

fbp-yellow-bar.webp

205 ms

nav-featured-parts.webp

nav-featured-parts.webp

408 ms

get-to-know-us.jpg

get-to-know-us.jpg

205 ms

outdurable-living.jpg

outdurable-living.jpg

207 ms

news-media.jpg

news-media.jpg

206 ms

nav-visualizer-thumb.png

nav-visualizer-thumb.png

458 ms

nav-gallery-photo.jpg

nav-gallery-photo.jpg

210 ms

fortress-preferred-program.jpg

fortress-preferred-program.jpg

267 ms

installation-guides.jpg

installation-guides.jpg

265 ms

nav-videos-thumbnail.webp

nav-videos-thumbnail.webp

246 ms

search-icon.png

search-icon.png

265 ms

home-proven-slider.webp

home-proven-slider.webp

467 ms

homepage-ecommerce-slider.webp

homepage-ecommerce-slider.webp

459 ms

home-framing-parts.webp

home-framing-parts.webp

562 ms

home-pergola-parts.webp

home-pergola-parts.webp

1379 ms

right-arrow-yellow.png

right-arrow-yellow.png

458 ms

rebuild-the-rules-fencing.webp

rebuild-the-rules-fencing.webp

832 ms

rebuild-the-rules-railing-and-stairs.jpg

rebuild-the-rules-railing-and-stairs.jpg

515 ms

rebuild-the-rules-fence-and-pillars.jpg

rebuild-the-rules-fence-and-pillars.jpg

921 ms

defend-against-the-ordinary.png

defend-against-the-ordinary.png

526 ms

up-chevron.png

up-chevron.png

564 ms

vertical-line.png

vertical-line.png

574 ms

down-chevron.png

down-chevron.png

612 ms

Icon-Contact-Us.png

Icon-Contact-Us.png

644 ms

icon-whereToBuy.png

icon-whereToBuy.png

647 ms

icon-shopping-cart.png

icon-shopping-cart.png

679 ms

our-products-bkgd.webp

our-products-bkgd.webp

1209 ms

fortress-railing-tile-flyout.webp

fortress-railing-tile-flyout.webp

871 ms

mpel_storage.html

mpel_storage.html

11 ms

tile-bkgd.webp

tile-bkgd.webp

783 ms

fortress-railing-tile-hover.webp

fortress-railing-tile-hover.webp

1055 ms

fortress-fencing-tile-hover.webp

fortress-fencing-tile-hover.webp

887 ms

mpel

mpel

26 ms

fortress-fencing-tile-flyout.webp

fortress-fencing-tile-flyout.webp

1010 ms

fortress-framing-tile-flyout.webp

fortress-framing-tile-flyout.webp

1044 ms

fortress-framing-tile-hover.webp

fortress-framing-tile-hover.webp

1049 ms

fortress-pergolas-tile-hover.webp

fortress-pergolas-tile-hover.webp

1176 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

74 ms

mpel_ssd.js

mpel_ssd.js

30 ms

fortress-pergolas-tile-flyout.webp

fortress-pergolas-tile-flyout.webp

1020 ms

fortress-lighting-tile-flyout.webp

fortress-lighting-tile-flyout.webp

1014 ms

fortress-lighting-tile-hover.webp

fortress-lighting-tile-hover.webp

1018 ms

outdurable-living-bkgd.webp

outdurable-living-bkgd.webp

1236 ms

outdurable-living-left.webp

outdurable-living-left.webp

1124 ms

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54 ms

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67 ms

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99 ms

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122 ms

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227 ms

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154 ms

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132 ms

defend-against-the-ordinary.webp

defend-against-the-ordinary.webp

1068 ms

mpel_storage.html

mpel_storage.html

38 ms

el3.gif

el3.gif

117 ms

insight_tag_errors.gif

insight_tag_errors.gif

138 ms

Always-Looking-at-the-Big-Picture.webp

Always-Looking-at-the-Big-Picture.webp

1116 ms

gallery-camera-icon.png

gallery-camera-icon.png

1011 ms

Fotress-Gives-me-Freedom.webp

Fotress-Gives-me-Freedom.webp

1134 ms

preferred-program.png

preferred-program.png

1075 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

70 ms

footer-railing.png

footer-railing.png

972 ms

footer-fencing.png

footer-fencing.png

933 ms

footer-framing.png

footer-framing.png

969 ms

footer-pergolas.png

footer-pergolas.png

967 ms

footer-lighting.png

footer-lighting.png

963 ms

footer-background.webp

footer-background.webp

925 ms

footer-dato.png

footer-dato.png

922 ms

fortress-footer-sign-up.png

fortress-footer-sign-up.png

912 ms

social-facebook-logo.png

social-facebook-logo.png

911 ms

social-instagram-logo.png

social-instagram-logo.png

903 ms

social-youtube-logo.png

social-youtube-logo.png

876 ms

social-linkedin.png

social-linkedin.png

845 ms

social-twitter.png

social-twitter.png

848 ms

social-pinterest-logo.png

social-pinterest-logo.png

843 ms

white-arrow-down.png

white-arrow-down.png

737 ms

Rolling-1s-34px.svg

Rolling-1s-34px.svg

696 ms

pd.js

pd.js

18 ms

analytics

analytics

16 ms

c.gif

c.gif

7 ms

Accessibility Review

fortressfence.com accessibility score

77

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

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.

Best Practices

fortressfence.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

fortressfence.com SEO score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Fortressfence.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 Fortressfence.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

fortressfence.com

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