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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

generalshale.com

America's Largest Producer of Clay Brick - General Shale

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

455 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Generalshale.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

generalshale.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,100 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

generalshale.com

1569 ms

gtm.js

79 ms

marvel.js

22 ms

animations.css

62 ms

styles.css

102 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Generalshale.com, 26% (27 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (8 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Generalshale.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 327.8 kB (16%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Generalshale.com main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 195.5 kB

  • Original 229.0 kB
  • After minification 223.2 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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 195.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 128.6 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. General Shale images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 202.5 kB
  • After minification 201.8 kB
  • After compression 200.4 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 1.7 kB

  • Original 238.3 kB
  • After minification 238.2 kB
  • After compression 236.6 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. Generalshale.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (76%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of General Shale. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

generalshale.com

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1569 ms

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79 ms

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Accessibility Review

generalshale.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

generalshale.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

generalshale.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

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 Generalshale.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 Generalshale.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

generalshale.com

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