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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

houbbq.com

Houston Barbecue Events - BBQ Festivals & Competitions

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

894 ms

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About Website

Welcome to houbbq.com homepage info - get ready to check Hou BBQ best content right away, or after learning these important things about houbbq.com

HOUBBQ is an independent, local organization that produces events recognizing the hard work and dedication of Houston barbecue pitmasters and restaurants.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houbbq.com page load time and found that the first response time was 69 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

houbbq.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,560 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

houbbq.com

69 ms

houbbq.com

279 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

24 ms

style.min.css

21 ms

theme.min.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Houbbq.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (312 ms) belongs to the original domain Houbbq.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 211.1 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Houbbq.com main page is 2.0 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 207.7 kB

  • Original 236.4 kB
  • After minification 236.4 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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 207.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Hou BBQ images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 404.6 kB
  • After minification 404.6 kB
  • After compression 403.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 139.4 kB
  • After minification 137.4 kB
  • After compression 137.1 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. Houbbq.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (65%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hou BBQ. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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69 ms

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279 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

sbi-styles.min.css

24 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

21 ms

theme.min.css

theme.min.css

40 ms

header-footer.min.css

header-footer.min.css

27 ms

elementor-icons.min.css

elementor-icons.min.css

38 ms

frontend.min.css

frontend.min.css

27 ms

swiper.min.css

swiper.min.css

38 ms

post-52.css

post-52.css

52 ms

frontend.min.css

frontend.min.css

40 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

58 ms

v4-shims.min.css

v4-shims.min.css

52 ms

global.css

global.css

62 ms

post-5.css

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54 ms

post-53.css

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55 ms

post-1608.css

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55 ms

fontawesome.min.css

fontawesome.min.css

66 ms

solid.min.css

solid.min.css

64 ms

brands.min.css

brands.min.css

66 ms

v4-shims.min.js

v4-shims.min.js

64 ms

js

js

160 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

59 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

144 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

128 ms

jquery.smartmenus.min.js

jquery.smartmenus.min.js

156 ms

sbi-scripts.min.js

sbi-scripts.min.js

158 ms

api.js

api.js

58 ms

webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

157 ms

webpack.runtime.min.js

webpack.runtime.min.js

159 ms

frontend-modules.min.js

frontend-modules.min.js

160 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

159 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

161 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

163 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

164 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

161 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

162 ms

elements-handlers.min.js

elements-handlers.min.js

166 ms

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sbi-sprite.png

69 ms

Logo_nofestival-2.png

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44 ms

houston-bbq-guide.png

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69 ms

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47 ms

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45 ms

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44 ms

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66 ms

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70 ms

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75 ms

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79 ms

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240 ms

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241 ms

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242 ms

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106 ms

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225 ms

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48 ms

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48 ms

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20 ms

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291 ms

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312 ms

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212 ms

Accessibility Review

houbbq.com accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role] values are not valid

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

houbbq.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

SEO Factors

houbbq.com SEO score

86

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

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 doesn't use 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 Houbbq.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 Houbbq.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 Hou BBQ. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: