Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

forwardslashtechnology.com

St. Louis IT Company | Managed Services St. Louis | Web Design & Development St. Louis | St. Louis IT Outsourcing | IT Support Services St Louis

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

189 ms

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Forward Slash Technology is a St. Louis Computer Consulting firm offering IT consulting, support, and St. Louis managed services, cloud computing, website design, system integration and mobile device ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forwardslashtechnology.com page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 2.8 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

forwardslashtechnology.com performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.085

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forwardslashtechnology.com

36 ms

forwardslashtechnology.com

804 ms

main.css

226 ms

email-decode.min.js

12 ms

ga.js

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Forwardslashtechnology.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Forwardslashtechnology.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 95.9 kB (14%)

Content Size

703.0 kB

After Optimization

607.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Forwardslashtechnology.com main page is 703.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 635.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 18.9 kB

  • Original 25.2 kB
  • After minification 22.5 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 2.7 kB, which is 11% 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 18.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 76.4 kB

  • Original 635.9 kB
  • After minification 559.5 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, Forwardslashtechnology needs image optimization as it can save up to 76.4 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 101 B

  • Original 38.8 kB
  • After minification 38.8 kB
  • After compression 38.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 522 B

  • Original 3.0 kB
  • After minification 3.0 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Forwardslashtechnology.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 522 B or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (32%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forwardslashtechnology. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

forwardslashtechnology.com accessibility score

67

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

forwardslashtechnology.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

forwardslashtechnology.com SEO score

58

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

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 Forwardslashtechnology.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 Forwardslashtechnology.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 description is not detected on the main page of Forwardslashtechnology. 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: