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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

ncslate.com

Natural Slate Roof Shingles Materials | North Country Slate

Page Load Speed

13.1 sec in total

First Response

110 ms

Resources Loaded

11.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

ncslate.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ncslate.com page load time and found that the first response time was 110 ms and then it took 13 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ncslate.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,250 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.052

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ncslate.com

110 ms

www.ncslate.com

2687 ms

lightbox.min.css

103 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

18 ms

style.min.css

143 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (80 requests) were addressed to the original Ncslate.com, 7% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Ncslate.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 219.0 kB (3%)

Content Size

7.3 MB

After Optimization

7.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ncslate.com main page is 7.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 167.7 kB

  • Original 201.6 kB
  • After minification 185.3 kB
  • After compression 33.9 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 167.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 6.4 MB
  • After minification 6.4 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. Nc Slate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 522.9 kB
  • After minification 522.5 kB
  • After compression 481.8 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 121.9 kB
  • After minification 121.2 kB
  • After compression 120.0 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. Ncslate.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (52%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nc Slate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ncslate.com

ncslate.com

110 ms

www.ncslate.com

www.ncslate.com

2687 ms

lightbox.min.css

lightbox.min.css

103 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

18 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

143 ms

style.css

style.css

119 ms

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119 ms

custom-frontend.min.css

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150 ms

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121 ms

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138 ms

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218 ms

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176 ms

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38 ms

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147 ms

css2

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47 ms

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173 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

245 ms

bootstrap.min.js

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337 ms

slick.min.js

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158 ms

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184 ms

main.js

main.js

180 ms

mixitup.min.js

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336 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

336 ms

responsive-embeds.js

responsive-embeds.js

335 ms

formValidation.js

formValidation.js

335 ms

webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

335 ms

webpack.runtime.min.js

webpack.runtime.min.js

341 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

342 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

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341 ms

frontend-modules.min.js

frontend-modules.min.js

340 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

341 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

341 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

415 ms

waypoints.min.js

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414 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

415 ms

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414 ms

elements-handlers.min.js

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413 ms

api.js

api.js

37 ms

calltrack.js

calltrack.js

336 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

189 ms

logo.png

logo.png

160 ms

nc-header-ipad-logo.png

nc-header-ipad-logo.png

232 ms

nc-new-logo.png

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231 ms

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233 ms

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200 ms

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554 ms

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502 ms

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487 ms

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579 ms

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671 ms

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563 ms

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566 ms

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567 ms

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626 ms

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610 ms

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615 ms

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544 ms

Ludowici-Clay-Tiles.png

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711 ms

FEATURED.jpg

FEATURED.jpg

628 ms

Slate-siding-on-house.jpg

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697 ms

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682 ms

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668 ms

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700 ms

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710 ms

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735 ms

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748 ms

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788 ms

embed

embed

190 ms

bg_forest-scaled.jpg

bg_forest-scaled.jpg

891 ms

www.ncslate.com

www.ncslate.com

6536 ms

polyfills.js

polyfills.js

676 ms

home.png

home.png

1128 ms

bg-design-support.png

bg-design-support.png

831 ms

design-support-img.jpg

design-support-img.jpg

730 ms

Slated-for-Excellence-Brochure.jpg

Slated-for-Excellence-Brochure.jpg

780 ms

NSA-Part-5-Installing-Slate-Video.jpg

NSA-Part-5-Installing-Slate-Video.jpg

797 ms

js

js

34 ms

search.js

search.js

4 ms

geometry.js

geometry.js

6 ms

main.js

main.js

9 ms

1725 ms

recaptcha__en.js

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50 ms

tracker.js

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228 ms

close.png

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96 ms

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print.css

print.css

39 ms

1990 ms

Accessibility Review

ncslate.com accessibility score

79

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

ncslate.com best practices score

75

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ncslate.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 Ncslate.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 Ncslate.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

ncslate.com

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