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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% 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

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

richardsassoc.com

Richards Associates, Inc. / Auto,Home,Business,Employee Benefits, Life Insurance

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

763 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

731 ms

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About Website

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Richards Associates, Inc. has been proudly serving the insurance needs of the Business and Individual communities since 1953. As a third generation family run business, Richards Associates combines ne...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Richardsassoc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 763 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

richardsassoc.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

richardsassoc.com

763 ms

bootstrap.min.css

172 ms

all.css

279 ms

v4-shims.css

192 ms

animate.min.css

293 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Richardsassoc.com, 20% (10 requests) were made to Storagesnoozzybs20.blob.core.windows.net and 8% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (763 ms) belongs to the original domain Richardsassoc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.5 MB (33%)

Content Size

10.6 MB

After Optimization

7.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Richardsassoc.com main page is 10.6 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. 80% 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 10.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 36.0 kB
  • After minification 30.8 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.1 kB, which is 14% 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 28.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 3.3 MB

  • Original 10.1 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. Obviously, Richards Assoc needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.3 MB or 33% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 160.6 kB

  • Original 381.7 kB
  • After minification 381.7 kB
  • After compression 221.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 160.6 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 79.0 kB
  • After minification 79.0 kB
  • After compression 63.3 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. Richardsassoc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.7 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (67%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Richards Assoc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

richardsassoc.com

richardsassoc.com

763 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

172 ms

all.css

all.css

279 ms

v4-shims.css

v4-shims.css

192 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

293 ms

site.broker.css

site.broker.css

213 ms

slick.min.css

slick.min.css

232 ms

slick-theme.min.css

slick-theme.min.css

318 ms

aos.css

aos.css

373 ms

sliders.css

sliders.css

404 ms

slidecard.css

slidecard.css

475 ms

widget-bundle.css

widget-bundle.css

288 ms

layout.splash.css

layout.splash.css

483 ms

offcanvas.css

offcanvas.css

492 ms

cosmo.css

cosmo.css

521 ms

js

js

59 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

406 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

735 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

734 ms

ces.ajax-form.js

ces.ajax-form.js

734 ms

site.broker.js

site.broker.js

735 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

734 ms

aos.js

aos.js

734 ms

css

css

32 ms

ai.0.js

ai.0.js

176 ms

embed

embed

410 ms

embed

embed

645 ms

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6xK3dSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3qOK7g.ttf

58 ms

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6xKydSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3ik4zwlxdr.ttf

66 ms

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6xKydSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3ig4vwlxdr.ttf

92 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

fa-brands-400.ttf

218 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

219 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

208 ms

widget.js

widget.js

173 ms

uploads%5C2018%5C06%5Cbusinessbanner1.png

uploads%5C2018%5C06%5Cbusinessbanner1.png

194 ms

uploads%5C2018%5C06%5CLoftusSlider.png

uploads%5C2018%5C06%5CLoftusSlider.png

245 ms

uploads%5C2018%5C06%5CBanner1a.png

uploads%5C2018%5C06%5CBanner1a.png

70 ms

uploads%5C2020%5C12%5CConstruction%20(3).jpg

uploads%5C2020%5C12%5CConstruction%20(3).jpg

58 ms

uploads%5C2018%5C04%5Clogo-header.png

uploads%5C2018%5C04%5Clogo-header.png

36 ms

uploads%5C2018%5C06%5Cconsultation3banner.png

uploads%5C2018%5C06%5Cconsultation3banner.png

144 ms

uploads%5C2019%5C10%5Cfooterben.png

uploads%5C2019%5C10%5Cfooterben.png

72 ms

uploads%5C2017%5C12%5CHome%20(6)-1.JPG

uploads%5C2017%5C12%5CHome%20(6)-1.JPG

65 ms

uploads%5C2021%5C11%5CTrustedChoice.png

uploads%5C2021%5C11%5CTrustedChoice.png

51 ms

uploads%5C2019%5C05%5CKids%20(2).JPG

uploads%5C2019%5C05%5CKids%20(2).JPG

36 ms

widget_app_base_1725874918757.js

widget_app_base_1725874918757.js

17 ms

js

js

34 ms

search.js

search.js

5 ms

geometry.js

geometry.js

9 ms

main.js

main.js

14 ms

Accessibility Review

richardsassoc.com accessibility score

73

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

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

richardsassoc.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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

richardsassoc.com SEO score

82

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Richardsassoc.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 Richardsassoc.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

richardsassoc.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Richards Assoc. 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: