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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

pier-tech.com

Telescope Piers, Dome Observatories, Roll Off Roof Observatories and Mobile Observatories by Pier Tech - Pier Tech

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

806 ms

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About Website

Welcome to pier-tech.com homepage info - get ready to check Pier Tech best content right away, or after learning these important things about pier-tech.com

Pier-Tech is a custom engineered telescope pier that is precisely adjustable in height allowing an observer to either sit or stand while observing or performing astrophotography.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pier-tech.com page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pier-tech.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.061

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pier-tech.com

15 ms

piertechinc.com

121 ms

piertechinc.com

938 ms

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153 ms

Our browser made a total of 154 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Pier-tech.com, 89% (137 requests) were made to Piertechinc.com and 7% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (938 ms) relates to the external source Piertechinc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 269.0 kB (4%)

Content Size

7.6 MB

After Optimization

7.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pier-tech.com main page is 7.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 85.5 kB

  • Original 102.9 kB
  • After minification 101.6 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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 85.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 150.0 kB

  • Original 7.0 MB
  • After minification 6.8 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. Pier Tech images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 353.8 kB
  • After minification 353.8 kB
  • After compression 333.8 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 194.9 kB
  • After minification 194.9 kB
  • After compression 181.4 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. Pier-tech.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 77 (57%)

Requests Now

135

After Optimization

58

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 135 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pier Tech. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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Accessibility Review

pier-tech.com accessibility score

90

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.

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

pier-tech.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

pier-tech.com SEO score

93

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

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 Pier-tech.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 Pier-tech.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

pier-tech.com

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