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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

locatorguys.com

Underground Utility Locating Equipment Supplier - World's Best Locating Equipment

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

70 ms

Resources Loaded

775 ms

Page Rendered

786 ms

locatorguys.com screenshot

About Website

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C&S Solutions supplies the most advanced equipment for locating, inspection & finding utilities. The world’s best equipment when it comes fault finding for electric, gas, water, sewer & data.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Locatorguys.com page load time and found that the first response time was 70 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

locatorguys.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value780 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.572

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

locatorguys.com

70 ms

www.locatorguys.com

164 ms

base

76 ms

page

104 ms

vendor-print

102 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Locatorguys.com, 69% (47 requests) were made to Static.spacecrafted.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (304 ms) relates to the external source App.termly.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (8%)

Content Size

15.8 MB

After Optimization

14.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Locatorguys.com main page is 15.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 15.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 59.4 kB

  • Original 77.2 kB
  • After minification 72.5 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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 59.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 15.7 MB
  • After minification 14.5 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. Locatorguys images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 22 B

  • Original 368 B
  • After minification 368 B
  • After compression 346 B

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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (20%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

51

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Locatorguys. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

locatorguys.com

locatorguys.com

70 ms

www.locatorguys.com

www.locatorguys.com

164 ms

base

base

76 ms

page

page

104 ms

vendor-print

vendor-print

102 ms

custom

custom

107 ms

modernizr.respond.min.js

modernizr.respond.min.js

106 ms

js

js

58 ms

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head

128 ms

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304 ms

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

44 ms

siteBundle.js

siteBundle.js

143 ms

body

body

149 ms

collections.js

collections.js

149 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

161 ms

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35 ms

header-bg.jpg

header-bg.jpg

153 ms

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167 ms

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141 ms

rd8200sg.jpg

rd8200sg.jpg

208 ms

training.jpg

training.jpg

283 ms

financing.jpg

financing.jpg

170 ms

utility-locating.jpg

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173 ms

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209 ms

team.jpg

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170 ms

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171 ms

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174 ms

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RD8200SG-home.png

210 ms

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214 ms

aries-truck-home.png

aries-truck-home.png

211 ms

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212 ms

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lmx-home.png

211 ms

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229 ms

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mesa-home.png

212 ms

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ridgid-inspection-cameras.jpg

212 ms

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213 ms

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214 ms

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215 ms

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229 ms

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214 ms

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215 ms

logos.jpg

logos.jpg

215 ms

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hathorn-facebook.png

216 ms

slider2.PNG

slider2.PNG

219 ms

slider3.PNG

slider3.PNG

218 ms

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slider4.PNG

221 ms

banner-newer.jpg

banner-newer.jpg

219 ms

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damange-prevention-company.jpg

222 ms

rigid.jpg

rigid.jpg

221 ms

pearpoint-radiodetection.jpg

pearpoint-radiodetection.jpg

221 ms

insight-vision.jpg

insight-vision.jpg

223 ms

jameson.jpg

jameson.jpg

247 ms

rycom.jpg

rycom.jpg

223 ms

hathorn-logo-small.jpg

hathorn-logo-small.jpg

85 ms

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24 ms

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26 ms

aries.jpg

aries.jpg

81 ms

milwaukee.jpg

milwaukee.jpg

58 ms

woundedwarrior.png

woundedwarrior.png

58 ms

member.png

member.png

57 ms

financing.png

financing.png

55 ms

p.gif

p.gif

30 ms

approve_plugin_loader.php

approve_plugin_loader.php

122 ms

lmx.jpg

lmx.jpg

32 ms

hathorn-slide.jpg

hathorn-slide.jpg

30 ms

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tradeshows.png

43 ms

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32 ms

JoinOurTeam.jpg

JoinOurTeam.jpg

67 ms

Accessibility Review

locatorguys.com accessibility score

93

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

locatorguys.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

locatorguys.com SEO score

89

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 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 Locatorguys.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 Locatorguys.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

locatorguys.com

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