Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

nicholsoncompanies.com

Nicholson Companies – Building Homes, Building Relationships

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

806 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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About Website

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Since Tom Nicholson founded Nicholson Companies more than 30 years ago, we’ve evolved into one of Orange County’s most recognized names in luxury residential development and custom home construction. ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nicholsoncompanies.com page load time and found that the first response time was 806 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nicholsoncompanies.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nicholsoncompanies.com

806 ms

js

85 ms

style.min.css

73 ms

theme.min.css

135 ms

plyr.css

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Nicholsoncompanies.com, 7% (6 requests) were made to Unpkg.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.plyr.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Nicholsoncompanies.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 583.4 kB (3%)

Content Size

20.9 MB

After Optimization

20.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Nicholsoncompanies.com main page is 20.9 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 20.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 253.8 kB

  • Original 279.5 kB
  • After minification 253.4 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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. 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 253.8 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 326.2 kB

  • Original 20.4 MB
  • After minification 20.1 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. Nicholson Companies images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 173.2 kB
  • After minification 173.2 kB
  • After compression 171.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 64.5 kB
  • After minification 64.5 kB
  • After compression 63.4 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. Nicholsoncompanies.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (21%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

59

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nicholson Companies. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nicholsoncompanies.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

nicholsoncompanies.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nicholsoncompanies.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nicholsoncompanies.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 Nicholsoncompanies.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Nicholson Companies. 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: