Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

signsmanufacturing.com

DALLAS FORT WORTH SIGN COMPANY -/ Signs Manufacturing™

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

436 ms

signsmanufacturing.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Signsmanufacturing.com page load time and found that the first response time was 264 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

signsmanufacturing.com performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.078

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

signsmanufacturing.com

264 ms

analytics.js

9 ms

conversion.js

22 ms

style.css

131 ms

jquery.js

209 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Signsmanufacturing.com, 9% (9 requests) were made to Americansignassociation.com and 8% (8 requests) were made to Cdn.jotfor.ms. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (729 ms) belongs to the original domain Signsmanufacturing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 978.3 kB (44%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Signsmanufacturing.com main page is 2.2 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 943.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 75.7 kB

  • Original 101.4 kB
  • After minification 97.2 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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 75.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 825.9 kB
  • After minification 798.1 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. Signs Manufacturing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 606.4 kB

  • Original 943.6 kB
  • After minification 917.5 kB
  • After compression 337.2 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 606.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 268.4 kB

  • Original 331.1 kB
  • After minification 321.6 kB
  • After compression 62.7 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. Signsmanufacturing.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 268.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (53%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Signs Manufacturing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

signsmanufacturing.com accessibility score

60

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

signsmanufacturing.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

signsmanufacturing.com SEO score

92

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Signsmanufacturing.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 Signsmanufacturing.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 Signs Manufacturing. 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: