Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

nicsystems.com

Control Systems Integrators - PLC, SCADA | NIC Systems Corp. CT

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

228 ms

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About Website

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Leading control systems integrators in CT, NY and NJ providing PLC and SCADA system solutions that ensure your process is stable and efficient.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nicsystems.com page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nicsystems.com performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nicsystems.com

59 ms

www.nicsystems.com

635 ms

www.nicsystems.com

327 ms

mootools.svn_v3.0.1.js

41 ms

jquery.min.js

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Nicsystems.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Deon4idhjbq8b.cloudfront.net and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (635 ms) belongs to the original domain Nicsystems.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 77.8 kB (13%)

Content Size

609.7 kB

After Optimization

532.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Nicsystems.com main page is 609.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 506.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 12.8 kB
  • After minification 12.8 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 8.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 68.8 kB

  • Original 506.8 kB
  • After minification 438.0 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. Obviously, NIC Systems needs image optimization as it can save up to 68.8 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 32 B

  • Original 85.6 kB
  • After minification 85.6 kB
  • After compression 85.5 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 54 B

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. Nicsystems.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (52%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NIC Systems. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nicsystems.com accessibility score

73

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

nicsystems.com best practices score

67

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

nicsystems.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nicsystems.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 Nicsystems.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of NIC Systems. 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: