Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

greatwesternbuildings.com

Steel Buildings | Pre-Engineered Metal Buildings Manufacturer

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

340 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

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Great Western Steel provides the highest quality metal & steel buildings nationwide. 100% American-made steel buildings, and pole barns.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatwesternbuildings.com page load time and found that the first response time was 340 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greatwesternbuildings.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,970 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greatwesternbuildings.com

340 ms

gravity-forms-theme-reset.min.css

37 ms

gravity-forms-theme-foundation.min.css

25 ms

gravity-forms-theme-framework.min.css

52 ms

sb-youtube.min.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (85 requests) were addressed to the original Greatwesternbuildings.com, 12% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (577 ms) belongs to the original domain Greatwesternbuildings.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 237.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Greatwesternbuildings.com main page is 4.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 237.4 kB

  • Original 280.4 kB
  • After minification 272.6 kB
  • After compression 43.1 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 237.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Greatwestern Buildings images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 163 B

  • Original 158.2 kB
  • After minification 158.2 kB
  • After compression 158.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 326 B

  • Original 190.5 kB
  • After minification 190.5 kB
  • After compression 190.2 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. Greatwesternbuildings.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (66%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Greatwestern Buildings. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 34 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

greatwesternbuildings.com accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

greatwesternbuildings.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

greatwesternbuildings.com SEO score

100

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

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 Greatwesternbuildings.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 Greatwesternbuildings.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 data is detected on the main page of Greatwestern Buildings. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: