Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

gilsonco.com

Construction Materials Testing Equipment - Gilson Co.

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

102 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

344 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gilsonco.com page load time and found that the first response time was 102 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gilsonco.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.208

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gilsonco.com

102 ms

www.globalgilson.com

97 ms

www.globalgilson.com

357 ms

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40 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gilsonco.com, 77% (60 requests) were made to Globalgilson.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (568 ms) relates to the external source Securitymetrics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 447.8 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Gilsonco.com main page is 2.7 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 66.3 kB

  • Original 87.0 kB
  • After minification 86.9 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. 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 66.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Gilson Co images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 45.3 kB

  • Original 361.8 kB
  • After minification 361.8 kB
  • After compression 316.5 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 45.3 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 329.1 kB

  • Original 389.4 kB
  • After minification 388.6 kB
  • After compression 60.2 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. Gilsonco.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 329.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (41%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gilson Co. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gilsonco.com accessibility score

64

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

gilsonco.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

gilsonco.com SEO score

85

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

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 Gilsonco.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 Gilsonco.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 Gilson Co. 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: