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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

hickoryhardscapes.com

Commercial Paver Installations, Hickory Hardscapes, Knoxville, Brentwood, TN

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

53 ms

Resources Loaded

544 ms

Page Rendered

608 ms

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About Website

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Hickory Hardscapes provides design and installation of, commercial concrete and permeable pavers throughout greater Knoxville, Brentwood, Maryville, Cleveland, Loudon, Louisville, Concord, Nashville, ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hickoryhardscapes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 53 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hickoryhardscapes.com performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.501

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.2 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hickoryhardscapes.com

53 ms

www.hickoryhardscapes.com

67 ms

head.min.js

17 ms

-desktop-style.css

35 ms

animations.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Hickoryhardscapes.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (175 ms) belongs to the original domain Hickoryhardscapes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 79.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hickoryhardscapes.com main page is 1.8 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 72.3 kB

  • Original 86.1 kB
  • After minification 83.5 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 72.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 329 B

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Hickory Hardscapes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 81.9 kB
  • After minification 81.9 kB
  • After compression 76.6 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 12.0 kB
  • After minification 12.0 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. Hickoryhardscapes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (63%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hickory Hardscapes. 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hickoryhardscapes.com

hickoryhardscapes.com

53 ms

www.hickoryhardscapes.com

www.hickoryhardscapes.com

67 ms

head.min.js

head.min.js

17 ms

-desktop-style.css

-desktop-style.css

35 ms

animations.css

animations.css

32 ms

dropdown.css

dropdown.css

31 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

53 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

44 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.js

jquery.magnific-popup.js

46 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

45 ms

jquery.cycle2.min.js

jquery.cycle2.min.js

46 ms

animatescroll.js

animatescroll.js

46 ms

-desktop-script.js

-desktop-script.js

46 ms

prefixfree.min.js

prefixfree.min.js

47 ms

logo.png

logo.png

46 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

47 ms

gmap.png

gmap.png

47 ms

angies-list.png

angies-list.png

160 ms

slides_arrow_prev.png

slides_arrow_prev.png

162 ms

slides_arrow_next.png

slides_arrow_next.png

162 ms

css3-animate-it.js

css3-animate-it.js

129 ms

body_bg.png

body_bg.png

128 ms

icon_phone.png

icon_phone.png

129 ms

slide_shadow_bg.png

slide_shadow_bg.png

129 ms

slides_01.jpg

slides_01.jpg

163 ms

slides_02.jpg

slides_02.jpg

164 ms

slides_03.jpg

slides_03.jpg

175 ms

shadow_bg.png

shadow_bg.png

128 ms

side_right_product_stone.png

side_right_product_stone.png

129 ms

shadow1_bg.png

shadow1_bg.png

129 ms

box_mechanical_instalation_bg.png

box_mechanical_instalation_bg.png

163 ms

services_01.jpg

services_01.jpg

130 ms

services_02.jpg

services_02.jpg

130 ms

services_03.jpg

services_03.jpg

130 ms

services_04.jpg

services_04.jpg

131 ms

services_05.jpg

services_05.jpg

140 ms

placeholder_star_bg.png

placeholder_star_bg.png

131 ms

securitycode-image.php

securitycode-image.php

143 ms

footer_logo.png

footer_logo.png

144 ms

scroll_top_bg.png

scroll_top_bg.png

160 ms

slide_icon.png

slide_icon.png

39 ms

slide_icon_on.png

slide_icon_on.png

86 ms

-desktop-style.css

-desktop-style.css

55 ms

animations.css

animations.css

68 ms

dropdown.css

dropdown.css

47 ms

css

css

74 ms

css

css

77 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

63 ms

magnific-popup.css

magnific-popup.css

74 ms

slick.css

slick.css

76 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHw.woff

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHw.woff

29 ms

UMBTrPtMoH62xUZCz4g8.woff

UMBTrPtMoH62xUZCz4g8.woff

58 ms

dropdown_arrow_top.png

dropdown_arrow_top.png

16 ms

Accessibility Review

hickoryhardscapes.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

hickoryhardscapes.com best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hickoryhardscapes.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Hickoryhardscapes.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 Hickoryhardscapes.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

hickoryhardscapes.com

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