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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

rkabuilders.com

RKA  |  Ranieri & Kerns Associates  ›  Builders / Construction Managers

Page Load Speed

962 ms in total

First Response

117 ms

Resources Loaded

685 ms

Page Rendered

160 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rkabuilders.com page load time and found that the first response time was 117 ms and then it took 845 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rkabuilders.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rkabuilders.com

117 ms

189c0a0e69.js

107 ms

styles.css

55 ms

mootools-1.2.4-core.js

110 ms

scripts.js

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Rkabuilders.com, 12% (5 requests) were made to St.hzcdn.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (287 ms) belongs to the original domain Rkabuilders.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.5 kB (3%)

Content Size

360.6 kB

After Optimization

351.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rkabuilders.com main page is 360.6 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 297.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 9.2 kB
  • After minification 6.9 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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 2.3 kB, which is 25% 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 7.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 857 B

  • Original 297.2 kB
  • After minification 296.3 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. RKA Builders images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 43.8 kB
  • After minification 43.8 kB
  • After compression 42.7 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 401 B

  • Original 10.4 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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. Rkabuilders.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (17%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RKA Builders. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rkabuilders.com

rkabuilders.com

117 ms

189c0a0e69.js

189c0a0e69.js

107 ms

styles.css

styles.css

55 ms

mootools-1.2.4-core.js

mootools-1.2.4-core.js

110 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

111 ms

home-anim.js

home-anim.js

104 ms

bgs.js

bgs.js

103 ms

foot.js

foot.js

104 ms

189c0a0e69.css

189c0a0e69.css

86 ms

font-awesome-css.min.css

font-awesome-css.min.css

15 ms

blueprint-home.gif

blueprint-home.gif

152 ms

badge_40_7@2x.png

badge_40_7@2x.png

58 ms

ga.js

ga.js

57 ms

badge_41_7@2x.png

badge_41_7@2x.png

10 ms

badge_21_7@2x.png

badge_21_7@2x.png

8 ms

badge_22_7@2x.png

badge_22_7@2x.png

11 ms

badge_19_7@2x.png

badge_19_7@2x.png

10 ms

home-bg.jpg

home-bg.jpg

151 ms

nav.gif

nav.gif

54 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

55 ms

est96.gif

est96.gif

55 ms

a1a.jpg

a1a.jpg

56 ms

a1b.jpg

a1b.jpg

108 ms

a2a.jpg

a2a.jpg

108 ms

a2b.jpg

a2b.jpg

107 ms

a3a.jpg

a3a.jpg

108 ms

a3b.jpg

a3b.jpg

149 ms

a4a.jpg

a4a.jpg

158 ms

a4b.jpg

a4b.jpg

185 ms

a5a.jpg

a5a.jpg

185 ms

a5b.jpg

a5b.jpg

185 ms

a6a.jpg

a6a.jpg

201 ms

a6b.jpg

a6b.jpg

202 ms

a7a.jpg

a7a.jpg

209 ms

a7b.jpg

a7b.jpg

238 ms

welcome.gif

welcome.gif

237 ms

pipe.gif

pipe.gif

235 ms

bestofMainline.gif

bestofMainline.gif

253 ms

logo-footer.png

logo-footer.png

253 ms

stripes.gif

stripes.gif

260 ms

viewOurCatalog.gif

viewOurCatalog.gif

287 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

25 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

rkabuilders.com accessibility score

64

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rkabuilders.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

SEO Factors

rkabuilders.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

    UTF-8

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

rkabuilders.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of RKA Builders. 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: