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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

sheppardinsurancegroup.com

Asheville Insurance Homeowners, Auto, Life, Business | Sheppard Insurance Group

Page Load Speed

685 ms in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

375 ms

Page Rendered

222 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sheppardinsurancegroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 88 ms and then it took 597 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

sheppardinsurancegroup.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.319

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sheppardinsurancegroup.com

88 ms

www.sheppardinsurancegroup.com

37 ms

css

37 ms

css

53 ms

style.css

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Sheppardinsurancegroup.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (170 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.userway.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 88.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

922.0 kB

After Optimization

833.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sheppardinsurancegroup.com main page is 922.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 613.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 28.3 kB

  • Original 35.3 kB
  • After minification 28.8 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 6.5 kB, which is 18% 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 28.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 613.2 kB
  • After minification 590.1 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. Sheppard Insurance Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 243.4 kB
  • After minification 243.4 kB
  • After compression 214.3 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 29.1 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 30.1 kB
  • After minification 30.1 kB
  • After compression 22.1 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. Sheppardinsurancegroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.0 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (55%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sheppard Insurance Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sheppardinsurancegroup.com

sheppardinsurancegroup.com

88 ms

www.sheppardinsurancegroup.com

www.sheppardinsurancegroup.com

37 ms

css

css

37 ms

css

css

53 ms

style.css

style.css

7 ms

slick.css

slick.css

17 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

23 ms

jquery.1.10.2.min.js

jquery.1.10.2.min.js

28 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.js

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.js

25 ms

core.js

core.js

22 ms

slick.js

slick.js

25 ms

js

js

82 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

26 ms

editor-style-shared.css

editor-style-shared.css

25 ms

js

js

77 ms

widget.js

widget.js

170 ms

lazysizes.min.js

lazysizes.min.js

25 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

27 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

js

js

79 ms

get-a-quote-text.png

get-a-quote-text.png

58 ms

widget_app_base_1726651421361.js

widget_app_base_1726651421361.js

25 ms

header-logo-new.png

header-logo-new.png

21 ms

Header-Image.jpg

Header-Image.jpg

33 ms

home-banner-logo-new.png

home-banner-logo-new.png

22 ms

title-bar-bg.jpg

title-bar-bg.jpg

22 ms

1982-Sheppard-History-300x175.jpg

1982-Sheppard-History-300x175.jpg

22 ms

call-to-action-arrow.png

call-to-action-arrow.png

21 ms

Product-and-Services-300x200.jpg

Product-and-Services-300x200.jpg

23 ms

P1000989-225x300.jpg

P1000989-225x300.jpg

23 ms

Lifesaver-icon.png

Lifesaver-icon.png

23 ms

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SlGDmQSNjdsmc35JDF1K5E55YMjF_7DPuGi-6_RkBI95.woff

31 ms

w8gdH283Tvk__Lua32TysjIfp8uJ.woff

w8gdH283Tvk__Lua32TysjIfp8uJ.woff

34 ms

Accessibility Review

sheppardinsurancegroup.com accessibility score

88

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

sheppardinsurancegroup.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

sheppardinsurancegroup.com SEO score

93

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

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 Sheppardinsurancegroup.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 Sheppardinsurancegroup.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sheppard Insurance Group. 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: