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Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

hardscapestl.com

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Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

315 ms

Resources Loaded

966 ms

Page Rendered

103 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hardscapestl.com page load time and found that the first response time was 315 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

hardscapestl.com performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

75/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hardscapestl.com

315 ms

structure.css

118 ms

navigation.css

174 ms

color.css

119 ms

content_wide.css

176 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Hardscapestl.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (522 ms) belongs to the original domain Hardscapestl.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 29.7 kB (6%)

Content Size

488.1 kB

After Optimization

458.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hardscapestl.com main page is 488.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 434.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 13.2 kB
  • After minification 11.2 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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 2.0 kB, which is 15% 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 9.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 434.2 kB
  • After minification 433.1 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. HardscapeSTL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 31.7 kB
  • After minification 27.6 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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 11.5 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 8.9 kB
  • After minification 6.5 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Hardscapestl.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (39%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HardscapeSTL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hardscapestl.com

hardscapestl.com

315 ms

structure.css

structure.css

118 ms

navigation.css

navigation.css

174 ms

color.css

color.css

119 ms

content_wide.css

content_wide.css

176 ms

flash.js

flash.js

177 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

231 ms

ga.js

ga.js

17 ms

hardscape_logo.gif

hardscape_logo.gif

62 ms

nav_bg.gif

nav_bg.gif

61 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

61 ms

facebook_sm.jpg

facebook_sm.jpg

62 ms

twitter_sm.jpg

twitter_sm.jpg

59 ms

rss_sm.jpg

rss_sm.jpg

61 ms

ut_sm.gif

ut_sm.gif

117 ms

pic_4.jpg

pic_4.jpg

522 ms

pic_5.jpg

pic_5.jpg

521 ms

pic_6.jpg

pic_6.jpg

470 ms

pic_1.jpg

pic_1.jpg

351 ms

pic_2.jpg

pic_2.jpg

463 ms

design_ideas.jpg

design_ideas.jpg

230 ms

go.png

go.png

288 ms

mid_bg.jpg

mid_bg.jpg

347 ms

bullet.gif

bullet.gif

406 ms

project_calculator.jpg

project_calculator.jpg

410 ms

line.gif

line.gif

464 ms

project_viz.jpg

project_viz.jpg

469 ms

landscape_patio_ideas.gif

landscape_patio_ideas.gif

522 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

Accessibility Review

hardscapestl.com accessibility score

59

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hardscapestl.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

SEO Factors

hardscapestl.com SEO score

50

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

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hardscapestl.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Hardscapestl.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

hardscapestl.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of HardscapeSTL. 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: