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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

gatesbuilders.com

Commercial and Residential Construction | Gates Builders, Gulf Shores AL

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

72 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gatesbuilders.com page load time and found that the first response time was 72 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gatesbuilders.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gatesbuilders.com

72 ms

gatesbuilders.com

169 ms

default.css

71 ms

ie.css

75 ms

skin.css

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Gatesbuilders.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (509 ms) belongs to the original domain Gatesbuilders.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (16%)

Content Size

13.8 MB

After Optimization

11.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gatesbuilders.com main page is 13.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 12.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

  • Original 19.4 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 13.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 12.5 MB
  • After minification 11.3 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. Gates Builders images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 940.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 834.5 kB
  • After compression 234.8 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 940.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 130.0 kB

  • Original 152.1 kB
  • After minification 107.8 kB
  • After compression 22.1 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. Gatesbuilders.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 130.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (46%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gates Builders. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gatesbuilders.com

gatesbuilders.com

72 ms

gatesbuilders.com

gatesbuilders.com

169 ms

default.css

default.css

71 ms

ie.css

ie.css

75 ms

skin.css

skin.css

93 ms

portal.css

portal.css

94 ms

layerslider.css

layerslider.css

101 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

279 ms

jquery-migrate.js

jquery-migrate.js

105 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

308 ms

css

css

28 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

126 ms

simple_header.css

simple_header.css

114 ms

main_sub.css

main_sub.css

120 ms

simple_footer.css

simple_footer.css

123 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

130 ms

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

149 ms

dnn.modalpopup.js

dnn.modalpopup.js

142 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

156 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

148 ms

dnncore.js

dnncore.js

162 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

167 ms

initWidgets.js

initWidgets.js

167 ms

ga.js

ga.js

80 ms

topback.png

topback.png

39 ms

logo.png

logo.png

36 ms

headerpic1.jpg

headerpic1.jpg

81 ms

headerpic2.jpg

headerpic2.jpg

36 ms

headerpic3.jpg

headerpic3.jpg

37 ms

headerpic4.jpg

headerpic4.jpg

81 ms

sliderback.jpg

sliderback.jpg

94 ms

Gates-Builders-Slider-Pane.png

Gates-Builders-Slider-Pane.png

81 ms

skin.css

skin.css

52 ms

hometitle.png

hometitle.png

62 ms

Westext1.JPG

Westext1.JPG

238 ms

DSC02400.JPG

DSC02400.JPG

509 ms

278402679_490771332478862_4404701034402036365_n.jpg

278402679_490771332478862_4404701034402036365_n.jpg

115 ms

GatesBuilders_1.jpg

GatesBuilders_1.jpg

113 ms

mapmarker.png

mapmarker.png

82 ms

phone.png

phone.png

99 ms

envelope.png

envelope.png

105 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

128 ms

font

font

56 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

31 ms

testimonialsback.jpg

testimonialsback.jpg

82 ms

footerback.png

footerback.png

91 ms

DotNetNukeAjaxShared.js

DotNetNukeAjaxShared.js

85 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

37 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

29 ms

skin.png

skin.png

25 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

26 ms

Accessibility Review

gatesbuilders.com accessibility score

94

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.

Best Practices

gatesbuilders.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

SEO Factors

gatesbuilders.com SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Gatesbuilders.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 Gatesbuilders.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

gatesbuilders.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gates Builders. 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: