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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

medashsigns.com

Medash Signs — Sign Making Company Kent: Design & Installation Since 1977

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

27 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

3.7 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Medash Signs content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about medashsigns.com

Established in 1977, Medash Signs has built a reputation for designing and installing quality signage solutions for companies throughout Kent & beyond. Contact us today for a free consultation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medashsigns.com page load time and found that the first response time was 27 ms and then it took 7.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medashsigns.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medashsigns.com

27 ms

gtm.js

80 ms

js

113 ms

js

136 ms

style.css

410 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Medashsigns.com, 3% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Medashsigns.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 209.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

5.9 MB

After Optimization

5.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Medashsigns.com main page is 5.9 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 5.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 96.0 kB

  • Original 114.5 kB
  • After minification 110.8 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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 96.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 37.1 kB

  • Original 5.4 MB
  • After minification 5.3 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. Medash Signs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 43.2 kB

  • Original 246.2 kB
  • After minification 235.6 kB
  • After compression 203.0 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 43.2 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 33.0 kB

  • Original 140.7 kB
  • After minification 120.6 kB
  • After compression 107.7 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. Medashsigns.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.0 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (41%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

43

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medash Signs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

medashsigns.com

medashsigns.com

27 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

80 ms

js

js

113 ms

js

js

136 ms

style.css

style.css

410 ms

all.css

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414 ms

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124 ms

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72 ms

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44 ms

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423 ms

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338 ms

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341 ms

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747 ms

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661 ms

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669 ms

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797 ms

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55 ms

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147 ms

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Accessibility Review

medashsigns.com accessibility score

91

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

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

medashsigns.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

medashsigns.com SEO score

84

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

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 Medashsigns.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 Medashsigns.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

medashsigns.com

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