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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

metrographics.com

Graphic Design & Web Design for Maryland - Metro Graphics

Page Load Speed

660 ms in total

First Response

135 ms

Resources Loaded

317 ms

Page Rendered

208 ms

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About Website

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Metro Graphics is an award-winning, full service graphic design and website design firm established in 1994. We employ the latest technology to create effective graphic designs for print and web that ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metrographics.com page load time and found that the first response time was 135 ms and then it took 525 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metrographics.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metrographics.com

135 ms

mg2.css

37 ms

ga.js

8 ms

mgbkg.jpg

38 ms

metro-graphics.gif

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Metrographics.com, 13% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (136 ms) belongs to the original domain Metrographics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 11.0 kB (31%)

Content Size

35.2 kB

After Optimization

24.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metrographics.com main page is 35.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 17.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 13.1 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 2.8 kB, which is 21% 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 9.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB

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. Metro Graphics images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-52%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 2.9 kB
  • After minification 2.9 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Metrographics.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 kB or 52% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metro Graphics. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

metrographics.com

metrographics.com

135 ms

mg2.css

mg2.css

37 ms

ga.js

ga.js

8 ms

mgbkg.jpg

mgbkg.jpg

38 ms

metro-graphics.gif

metro-graphics.gif

73 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

72 ms

MGLOGO1x1.gif

MGLOGO1x1.gif

70 ms

colorbar2.gif

colorbar2.gif

73 ms

mgblue2.gif

mgblue2.gif

99 ms

success.gif

success.gif

70 ms

yourimage.gif

yourimage.gif

104 ms

frontport.gif

frontport.gif

136 ms

cards_4c_small.gif

cards_4c_small.gif

103 ms

thawte_official_referrer_seal.gif

thawte_official_referrer_seal.gif

103 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

metrographics.com accessibility score

78

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

metrographics.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

metrographics.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Metrographics.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 Metrographics.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

metrographics.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Metro Graphics. 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: