Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

ricksautomotivema.com

Rick's Automotive : Automotive Service and Maintenance in Billerica, MA

Page Load Speed

22 sec in total

First Response

380 ms

Resources Loaded

21.1 sec

Page Rendered

586 ms

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About Website

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Rick's Automotive serves Billerica, MA and the surrounding area with top quality automotive service, repair and maintenance. This includes Air Conditioning Service, Batteries, Belts and Hose Inspectio...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ricksautomotivema.com page load time and found that the first response time was 380 ms and then it took 21.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

ricksautomotivema.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.089

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ricksautomotivema.com

380 ms

www.ricksautomotivema.com

475 ms

main.css

89 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

31 ms

js

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Ricksautomotivema.com, 10% (4 requests) were made to Unpkg.com and 10% (4 requests) were made to Images.driverside.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.1 sec) relates to the external source Carpronetwork.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 374.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

5.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Ricksautomotivema.com main page is 5.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 53.9 kB

  • Original 64.8 kB
  • After minification 50.4 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 14.4 kB, which is 22% 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 53.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 65.2 kB

  • Original 5.3 MB
  • After minification 5.3 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. Rick S Automotive MA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 300 B

  • Original 523 B
  • After minification 523 B
  • After compression 223 B

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 300 B or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 254.6 kB

  • Original 293.8 kB
  • After minification 246.0 kB
  • After compression 39.2 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. Ricksautomotivema.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 254.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (9%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rick S Automotive MA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ricksautomotivema.com accessibility score

77

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements 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

Best Practices

ricksautomotivema.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

ricksautomotivema.com SEO score

76

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Ricksautomotivema.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 Ricksautomotivema.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 Rick S Automotive MA. 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: