Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

gdsdesigngroup.com

GDS Design Group – GDS Design Group provides designs and drawings to the commercial fire alarm and access control industries.

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

299 ms

Resources Loaded

815 ms

Page Rendered

326 ms

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GDS Design Group provides designs and drawings to the commercial fire alarm and access control industries.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gdsdesigngroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 299 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gdsdesigngroup.com performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gdsdesigngroup.com

299 ms

style.css

131 ms

layout.css

227 ms

SpryMenuBar.js

253 ms

SpryMenuBarVertical.css

261 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Gdsdesigngroup.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (299 ms) belongs to the original domain Gdsdesigngroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 8.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

47.2 kB

After Optimization

38.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Gdsdesigngroup.com main page is 47.2 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 37.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 5.2 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 755 B, which is 14% 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 3.3 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 37.8 kB
  • After minification 36.0 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. GDS Design Group images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 4.2 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Gdsdesigngroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GDS Design Group. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

gdsdesigngroup.com accessibility score

97

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

gdsdesigngroup.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

gdsdesigngroup.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Gdsdesigngroup.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 Gdsdesigngroup.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 GDS Design Group. 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: