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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

sheldonslate.com

Sheldon Slate Products, Company Inc. - Monson, Maine + Middle Granville, New York - Honing the Natural Beauty of Slate Since 1917.

Page Load Speed

585 ms in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

358 ms

Page Rendered

118 ms

sheldonslate.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Sheldon Slate content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sheldonslate.com

Sheldon Slate Products Company, Inc. is a family tradition since 1917, providing slate for floors, custom kitchens and slate sinks for commercial and residential applications.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sheldonslate.com page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 476 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sheldonslate.com performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

53/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sheldonslate.com

109 ms

sheldonslate.com

68 ms

styles.css

17 ms

ga.js

16 ms

main-kitchen-bath-0.jpg

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Sheldonslate.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (157 ms) belongs to the original domain Sheldonslate.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 7.4 kB (3%)

Content Size

249.6 kB

After Optimization

242.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sheldonslate.com main page is 249.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 221.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 10.0 kB
  • After minification 9.9 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 7.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 276 B

  • Original 221.3 kB
  • After minification 221.1 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. Sheldon Slate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-14%

Potential reduce by 159 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 950 B

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. Sheldonslate.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 159 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (54%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sheldon Slate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sheldonslate.com

sheldonslate.com

109 ms

sheldonslate.com

sheldonslate.com

68 ms

styles.css

styles.css

17 ms

ga.js

ga.js

16 ms

main-kitchen-bath-0.jpg

main-kitchen-bath-0.jpg

51 ms

main-gallery-2.jpg

main-gallery-2.jpg

81 ms

main-flooring-1.jpg

main-flooring-1.jpg

83 ms

main-roofing-1.jpg

main-roofing-1.jpg

82 ms

main-landscape-1.jpg

main-landscape-1.jpg

81 ms

main-architectural-1.jpg

main-architectural-1.jpg

81 ms

main-custom-1.jpg

main-custom-1.jpg

68 ms

main-gallery-1.jpg

main-gallery-1.jpg

85 ms

nav1-off.gif

nav1-off.gif

96 ms

nav1-on.gif

nav1-on.gif

97 ms

nav2-off.gif

nav2-off.gif

96 ms

nav2-on.gif

nav2-on.gif

97 ms

nav3-off.gif

nav3-off.gif

98 ms

nav3-on.gif

nav3-on.gif

99 ms

nav4-off.gif

nav4-off.gif

111 ms

nav4-on.gif

nav4-on.gif

112 ms

nav5-off.gif

nav5-off.gif

112 ms

nav5-on.gif

nav5-on.gif

113 ms

nav6-off.gif

nav6-off.gif

114 ms

nav6-on.gif

nav6-on.gif

114 ms

nav7-off.gif

nav7-off.gif

126 ms

nav7-on.gif

nav7-on.gif

127 ms

bg-green.jpg

bg-green.jpg

128 ms

Sheldon-Slate-Products-Co-Logo.gif

Sheldon-Slate-Products-Co-Logo.gif

128 ms

Sheldon-Slate-tagline.gif

Sheldon-Slate-tagline.gif

130 ms

bg-blacktrans.png

bg-blacktrans.png

129 ms

nav8-off.gif

nav8-off.gif

141 ms

nav9-off.gif

nav9-off.gif

142 ms

nav11-off.gif

nav11-off.gif

143 ms

nav12-off.gif

nav12-off.gif

143 ms

nav10-on.gif

nav10-on.gif

145 ms

roofing-4-custom-1.jpg

roofing-4-custom-1.jpg

146 ms

flooring-7.jpg

flooring-7.jpg

156 ms

Sheldon-Slate-address.gif

Sheldon-Slate-address.gif

157 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

sheldonslate.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

sheldonslate.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

sheldonslate.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sheldonslate.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 Sheldonslate.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

sheldonslate.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sheldon Slate. 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: