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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

shepherdsfire.com

Shepherds Fire-Rescue - Iredell County, North Carolina

Page Load Speed

773 ms in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

295 ms

Page Rendered

448 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Shepherds Fire content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about shepherdsfire.com

Shepherds Fire-Rescue has been proudly serving the citizens of Iredell County since 1961. Today, we operate and maintain 3 Engines, 2 Tankers, 1 Rescue, 1 Marine Boat, 1 Brush Unit, and a Utility.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shepherdsfire.com page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 743 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

shepherdsfire.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,520 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shepherdsfire.com

30 ms

shepherdsfire.com

112 ms

fsStyle.css

28 ms

jquery.min.js

26 ms

fadeslideshow.js

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Shepherdsfire.com, 8% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (112 ms) belongs to the original domain Shepherdsfire.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 444.3 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shepherdsfire.com main page is 1.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 802.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 28.5 kB

  • Original 36.1 kB
  • After minification 35.2 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 28.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 802.6 kB
  • After minification 772.8 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. Shepherds Fire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 378.8 kB

  • Original 675.7 kB
  • After minification 668.7 kB
  • After compression 297.0 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 378.8 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 8.3 kB
  • After minification 6.9 kB
  • After compression 952 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. Shepherdsfire.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (26%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shepherds Fire. 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

shepherdsfire.com

shepherdsfire.com

30 ms

shepherdsfire.com

shepherdsfire.com

112 ms

fsStyle.css

fsStyle.css

28 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

26 ms

fadeslideshow.js

fadeslideshow.js

35 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

35 ms

milonic_src.js

milonic_src.js

8 ms

mmenudom.js

mmenudom.js

20 ms

api.js

api.js

47 ms

divider.jpg

divider.jpg

43 ms

Shepherds%20Hiring%20Flyer%202.pub.jpg

Shepherds%20Hiring%20Flyer%202.pub.jpg

108 ms

ncdoi%20shepherds%20news%20release.jpg

ncdoi%20shepherds%20news%20release.jpg

52 ms

random2.jpg

random2.jpg

42 ms

random3.jpg

random3.jpg

43 ms

random4.jpg

random4.jpg

43 ms

random1.jpg

random1.jpg

49 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

47 ms

fslogo.png

fslogo.png

107 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

64 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

69 ms

sfr_banner1.jpg

sfr_banner1.jpg

69 ms

sfr_banner2.jpg

sfr_banner2.jpg

18 ms

sfr_banner3.jpg

sfr_banner3.jpg

17 ms

sfr_banner_4.jpg

sfr_banner_4.jpg

18 ms

bottom.jpg

bottom.jpg

18 ms

Accessibility Review

shepherdsfire.com accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

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

shepherdsfire.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

shepherdsfire.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

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

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 Shepherdsfire.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 Shepherdsfire.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

shepherdsfire.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Shepherds Fire. 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: