Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

howardgroup.com

Expert Commercial Property Management in Albany NY | Howard Group

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

150 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

535 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howardgroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 150 ms and then it took 2.1 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

howardgroup.com performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

howardgroup.com

150 ms

howardgroup.com

307 ms

css

32 ms

bootstrap.min.css

258 ms

icofont.min.css

393 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Howardgroup.com, 29% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (936 ms) belongs to the original domain Howardgroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Howardgroup.com main page is 3.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 19.7 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 4.9 kB, which is 20% 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 19.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Howard Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 28.8 kB

  • Original 117.8 kB
  • After minification 117.8 kB
  • After compression 89.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 28.8 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 58.5 kB

  • Original 152.7 kB
  • After minification 152.7 kB
  • After compression 94.1 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. Howardgroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 58.5 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (59%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Howard Group. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

howardgroup.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

Best Practices

howardgroup.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

howardgroup.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 Howardgroup.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 Howardgroup.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 Howard Group. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: