Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

smicklumber.com

Smick Lumber and Building Material Center | Since 1906

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

283 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

440 ms

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Smick Lumber and Building Material Center is a family owned business, now operated by the fifth generation of the Smick family, which is celebrating its 112th year of continuous service to Southern Ne...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smicklumber.com page load time and found that the first response time was 283 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smicklumber.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.515

15/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smicklumber.com

283 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

43 ms

layerslider.css

83 ms

css

37 ms

styles.css

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Smicklumber.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (665 ms) belongs to the original domain Smicklumber.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (65%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

678.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Smicklumber.com main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 158.2 kB

  • Original 191.8 kB
  • After minification 186.4 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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 158.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 13 B

  • Original 8.2 kB
  • After minification 8.1 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. Smick Lumber images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 349.4 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 1.0 MB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 101.8 kB

  • Original 388.7 kB
  • After minification 387.8 kB
  • After compression 286.9 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. Smicklumber.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 101.8 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (94%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smick Lumber. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smicklumber.com accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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.

SEO Factors

smicklumber.com SEO score

79

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Document doesn't have a valid hreflang

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 Smicklumber.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 Smicklumber.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Smick Lumber. 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: