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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

luchs.com

Luchs and Decarlo & Doll Consulting Engineers and Architects in CT

Page Load Speed

694 ms in total

First Response

9 ms

Resources Loaded

507 ms

Page Rendered

178 ms

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About Website

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A Connecticut engineering firm providing civil engineering, traffic and transportation engineering, architecture, land surveying & construction services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Luchs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 9 ms and then it took 685 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

luchs.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

luchs.com

9 ms

www.luchs.com

93 ms

pca2jrl.js

119 ms

style.css

15 ms

style-d.css

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Luchs.com, 28% (14 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (210 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 206.7 kB (3%)

Content Size

7.4 MB

After Optimization

7.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Luchs.com main page is 7.4 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 7.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 39.8 kB

  • Original 45.6 kB
  • After minification 45.6 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 39.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 163.0 kB

  • Original 7.3 MB
  • After minification 7.2 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. Luchs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 35.0 kB
  • After minification 35.0 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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 3.8 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 89 B

  • Original 8.4 kB
  • After minification 8.4 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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. Luchs.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (38%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Luchs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

luchs.com

luchs.com

9 ms

www.luchs.com

www.luchs.com

93 ms

pca2jrl.js

pca2jrl.js

119 ms

style.css

style.css

15 ms

style-d.css

style-d.css

51 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

15 ms

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

28 ms

pageLoad.js

pageLoad.js

19 ms

style.css

style.css

33 ms

jquery.iosslider.min.js

jquery.iosslider.min.js

23 ms

rotator.js

rotator.js

24 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

54 ms

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99 ms

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58 ms

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57 ms

LuchsReceptionHomePage.jpg

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58 ms

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59 ms

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62 ms

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60 ms

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63 ms

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64 ms

WaterburyCityHallReceptionHomePage.jpg

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66 ms

GuilfordSafetyComplexHomePage.jpg

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67 ms

LuchsDDExteriorHomePage.jpg

LuchsDDExteriorHomePage.jpg

64 ms

MilfordEastSideFireStationHomePage.jpg

MilfordEastSideFireStationHomePage.jpg

67 ms

SteelPointeBridgeportHomePage.jpg

SteelPointeBridgeportHomePage.jpg

68 ms

WaterburyCityHallExteriorHomePage.jpg

WaterburyCityHallExteriorHomePage.jpg

69 ms

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69 ms

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next@2x.png

70 ms

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CASHO_Award_Photo_1_Small_Nov_2016.jpg

74 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

55 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

25 ms

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21 ms

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210 ms

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35 ms

style-m.css

style-m.css

11 ms

style_print.css

style_print.css

20 ms

js

js

66 ms

Accessibility Review

luchs.com accessibility score

64

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

luchs.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

luchs.com SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Luchs.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Luchs.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 description is not detected on the main page of Luchs. 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: