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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

socalgas.com

Home | SoCalGas

Page Load Speed

9.5 sec in total

First Response

51 ms

Resources Loaded

9.2 sec

Page Rendered

258 ms

socalgas.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing So Cal Gas content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about socalgas.com

As the nation's largest natural gas distribution utility, we deliver clean, safe and reliable energy to 21.1 million consumers in more than 500 communities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Socalgas.com page load time and found that the first response time was 51 ms and then it took 9.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

socalgas.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,010 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.117

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

socalgas.com

51 ms

socalgas.com

402 ms

www.socalgas.com

73 ms

socalcommon.js

4094 ms

fontawesome.css

340 ms

Our browser made a total of 171 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (140 requests) were addressed to the original Socalgas.com, 3% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) relates to the external source Myaccount.socalgas.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 154.1 kB (0%)

Content Size

35.2 MB

After Optimization

35.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Socalgas.com main page is 35.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 34.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 139.9 kB

  • Original 161.0 kB
  • After minification 137.6 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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 23.3 kB, which is 14% 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 139.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 34.3 MB
  • After minification 34.3 MB

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. So Cal Gas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 562.8 kB
  • After minification 562.6 kB
  • After compression 557.6 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 169.7 kB
  • After minification 169.7 kB
  • After compression 166.7 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. Socalgas.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 119 (75%)

Requests Now

158

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 158 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of So Cal Gas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 94 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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51 ms

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Accessibility Review

socalgas.com accessibility score

92

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Best Practices

socalgas.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

socalgas.com SEO score

77

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Socalgas.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 Socalgas.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

socalgas.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of So Cal Gas. 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: