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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

hardinbuilders.com

Custom Home Builders ~ Barrington IL ~ North Shore Luxury Home Builders | Hardin Builders

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

78 ms

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About Website

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Hardin Builders located in Barrington, IL is a luxury custom home builder and remodeler. A dedicated design-build firm with homes throughout Chicago-land including Northwest Suburbs, Northshore, Inver...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hardinbuilders.com page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 2.2 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

hardinbuilders.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,040 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hardinbuilders.com

165 ms

wpo-minify-header-a831afc3.min.css

241 ms

wpo-minify-header-0acc1fdc.min.js

328 ms

all.css

75 ms

js

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Hardinbuilders.com, 19% (6 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (466 ms) belongs to the original domain Hardinbuilders.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 101.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hardinbuilders.com main page is 1.4 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. Javascripts take 980.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 86.5 kB

  • Original 105.5 kB
  • After minification 102.3 kB
  • After compression 19.1 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 86.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 65.0 kB
  • After minification 51.5 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. Obviously, Hardin Builders needs image optimization as it can save up to 13.4 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 980.8 kB
  • After minification 980.8 kB
  • After compression 979.7 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 312 B

  • Original 292.1 kB
  • After minification 292.1 kB
  • After compression 291.8 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. Hardinbuilders.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (59%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hardin 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hardinbuilders.com

hardinbuilders.com

165 ms

wpo-minify-header-a831afc3.min.css

wpo-minify-header-a831afc3.min.css

241 ms

wpo-minify-header-0acc1fdc.min.js

wpo-minify-header-0acc1fdc.min.js

328 ms

all.css

all.css

75 ms

js

js

90 ms

slim-10_7.css

slim-10_7.css

48 ms

css

css

60 ms

wpo-minify-footer-eb503a00.min.css

wpo-minify-footer-eb503a00.min.css

193 ms

wpo-minify-footer-d795979c.min.js

wpo-minify-footer-d795979c.min.js

234 ms

wpo-minify-footer-74d10fea.min.js

wpo-minify-footer-74d10fea.min.js

206 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.js

wp-mediaelement.min.js

170 ms

wpo-minify-footer-c464c1f7.min.js

wpo-minify-footer-c464c1f7.min.js

466 ms

api.js

api.js

62 ms

wpo-minify-footer-eca844b2.min.js

wpo-minify-footer-eca844b2.min.js

389 ms

close_side_menu.png

close_side_menu.png

148 ms

745_10-copy-240x300.jpg

745_10-copy-240x300.jpg

147 ms

logo.png

logo.png

147 ms

logo_black.png

logo_black.png

147 ms

Hardin_Logo2019-1.png

Hardin_Logo2019-1.png

147 ms

dummy.png

dummy.png

262 ms

ga.js

ga.js

40 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

45 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

86 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

64 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

285 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

43 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

319 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

97 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

246 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

29 ms

fontello.woff

fontello.woff

154 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

26 ms

Accessibility Review

hardinbuilders.com accessibility score

84

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

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

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

hardinbuilders.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hardinbuilders.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 Hardinbuilders.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 Hardinbuilders.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

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