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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

howardsheppard.com

Family Owned Trucking Company | Howard Sheppard Homepage

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

190 ms

Resources Loaded

989 ms

Page Rendered

595 ms

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About Website

Welcome to howardsheppard.com homepage info - get ready to check Howard Sheppard best content right away, or after learning these important things about howardsheppard.com

Howard Sheppard Inc. is a For-Hire Carrier providing common, contract, and truckload services, particularly kaolin, carbonates and non-hazardous chemicals

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howardsheppard.com page load time and found that the first response time was 190 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

howardsheppard.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,120 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.841

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.howardsheppard.com

190 ms

css

33 ms

style.min.css

23 ms

css

29 ms

divi-mega-menu-custom.min.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Howardsheppard.com, 14% (6 requests) were made to Howardsheppard.wpengine.com and 14% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (539 ms) relates to the external source Howardsheppard.wpengine.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 279.5 kB (6%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Howardsheppard.com main page is 4.7 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. 80% 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 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 153.6 kB

  • Original 184.7 kB
  • After minification 182.0 kB
  • After compression 31.1 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 153.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 122.6 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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 Sheppard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 322.8 kB
  • After minification 322.8 kB
  • After compression 319.7 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 216 B

  • Original 67.5 kB
  • After minification 67.4 kB
  • After compression 67.2 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. Howardsheppard.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (66%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Howard Sheppard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.howardsheppard.com

www.howardsheppard.com

190 ms

css

css

33 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

23 ms

css

css

29 ms

divi-mega-menu-custom.min.css

divi-mega-menu-custom.min.css

33 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

80 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

38 ms

nfpluginsettings.js

nfpluginsettings.js

43 ms

et-core-unified-2.min.css

et-core-unified-2.min.css

43 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

39 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

51 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

68 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

70 ms

frontend-bundle.min.js

frontend-bundle.min.js

61 ms

common.js

common.js

100 ms

divi-mega-menu.min.js

divi-mega-menu.min.js

69 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

101 ms

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

101 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.js

wp-mediaelement.min.js

100 ms

Howard-Sheppard-INC_LOGO.png

Howard-Sheppard-INC_LOGO.png

297 ms

ERov3xVw5lY

ERov3xVw5lY

162 ms

et-divi-dynamic-tb-24857-tb-105115-2-late.css

et-divi-dynamic-tb-24857-tb-105115-2-late.css

21 ms

preloader.gif

preloader.gif

160 ms

Slider1_services.jpg

Slider1_services.jpg

536 ms

fall-line-5.jpg

fall-line-5.jpg

535 ms

sheppards.png

sheppards.png

538 ms

Truck_lineup.jpg

Truck_lineup.jpg

539 ms

quotes.png

quotes.png

205 ms

ERov3xVw5lY

ERov3xVw5lY

78 ms

modules.woff

modules.woff

37 ms

font

font

27 ms

font

font

69 ms

font

font

265 ms

font

font

58 ms

font

font

264 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

10 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

30 ms

base.js

base.js

57 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

149 ms

FoEX-quY0t7i9F3zTEBnQn49aOPZkPAqcwwf5YitGsc.js

FoEX-quY0t7i9F3zTEBnQn49aOPZkPAqcwwf5YitGsc.js

112 ms

embed.js

embed.js

40 ms

id

id

35 ms

Accessibility Review

howardsheppard.com accessibility score

87

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

howardsheppard.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

howardsheppard.com SEO score

93

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

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 Howardsheppard.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 Howardsheppard.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

howardsheppard.com

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