Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

septic.com

Septic.com: a Handbook to your Septic System and Septic Tank

Page Load Speed

718 ms in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

544 ms

Page Rendered

133 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Septic content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about septic.com

Septic.com provides the homeowner with a set of tools to help them find and deal with septic contractors, maintain their septic system, and learn about alternative septic systems.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Septic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 677 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

septic.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,110 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.565

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

septic.com

41 ms

septic.com

250 ms

main.css

13 ms

adsbygoogle.js

92 ms

jquery-latest.min.js

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Septic.com, 26% (5 requests) were made to Google.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Cse.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (250 ms) belongs to the original domain Septic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 250.1 kB (46%)

Content Size

542.0 kB

After Optimization

292.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Septic.com main page is 542.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 457.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 33.9 kB
  • After minification 33.4 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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. 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 23.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 76 B

  • Original 37.4 kB
  • After minification 37.4 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. Septic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 222.4 kB

  • Original 457.8 kB
  • After minification 457.8 kB
  • After compression 235.4 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 222.4 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 12.9 kB
  • After minification 12.9 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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. Septic.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.8 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (50%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Septic. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

septic.com accessibility score

88

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best Practices

septic.com best practices score

75

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

septic.com SEO score

89

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Septic.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Septic.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Septic. 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: