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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

solarhome.org

Solar Panels, Power and Solar Kits

Page Load Speed

18.9 sec in total

First Response

146 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

13.5 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Solarhome.org page load time and found that the first response time was 146 ms and then it took 18.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

solarhome.org performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

solarhome.org

146 ms

www.solarhome.org

285 ms

solarhome.css

37 ms

pagebkg.gif

1791 ms

header_bg.gif

1756 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Solarhome.org, 3% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Solarhome.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 90.5 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Solarhome.org main page is 1.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 22.9 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 15.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 58.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Solar Home images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-83%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 20.5 kB
  • After minification 15.3 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. Solarhome.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (16%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

32

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solar Home. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

solarhome.org

solarhome.org

146 ms

www.solarhome.org

www.solarhome.org

285 ms

solarhome.css

solarhome.css

37 ms

pagebkg.gif

pagebkg.gif

1791 ms

header_bg.gif

header_bg.gif

1756 ms

social-media.gif

social-media.gif

1753 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

1750 ms

header_infoBox.gif

header_infoBox.gif

1644 ms

go.gif

go.gif

1722 ms

shopBar_search.gif

shopBar_search.gif

1722 ms

globaltabs.gif

globaltabs.gif

1829 ms

shopBar_bkg.gif

shopBar_bkg.gif

1786 ms

nav_solarpanels.gif

nav_solarpanels.gif

1784 ms

nav_solarkits.gif

nav_solarkits.gif

1874 ms

nav_kits.gif

nav_kits.gif

1784 ms

nav_inverters.gif

nav_inverters.gif

1839 ms

nav_controllers.gif

nav_controllers.gif

1839 ms

nav_batteries.gif

nav_batteries.gif

1838 ms

nav_pumps.gif

nav_pumps.gif

1838 ms

nav_home.gif

nav_home.gif

1620 ms

nav_gray_bar.gif

nav_gray_bar.gif

1620 ms

mainpageBkg2.gif

mainpageBkg2.gif

1620 ms

headline_bg.gif

headline_bg.gif

1389 ms

SaveMoney.jpg

SaveMoney.jpg

1736 ms

StarterKits.jpg

StarterKits.jpg

1389 ms

ResidentialSolarCenter.jpg

ResidentialSolarCenter.jpg

1768 ms

Grundfos.jpg

Grundfos.jpg

1704 ms

PanelsbythePallet.jpg

PanelsbythePallet.jpg

1736 ms

HeliosSolarWorks.jpg

HeliosSolarWorks.jpg

1357 ms

Hyundai-A.jpg

Hyundai-A.jpg

1737 ms

Hyundai-B.jpg

Hyundai-B.jpg

1717 ms

solar-installers.jpg

solar-installers.jpg

1678 ms

leftcol_header1.gif

leftcol_header1.gif

1701 ms

leftcol_header3.gif

leftcol_header3.gif

1678 ms

used-surplus.jpg

used-surplus.jpg

1678 ms

HyundaiPanels.jpg

HyundaiPanels.jpg

1883 ms

footer_banner.gif

footer_banner.gif

1933 ms

credit_cards.gif

credit_cards.gif

1909 ms

social-media-icons.gif

social-media-icons.gif

993 ms

ga.js

ga.js

66 ms

Accessibility Review

solarhome.org accessibility score

56

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

solarhome.org 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

solarhome.org SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Solarhome.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Solarhome.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

solarhome.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Solar Home. 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: