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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

southern-tech.com

Class I Railroad Equipment | Southern Technologies Corporation

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

209 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

152 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Southern Tech content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about southern-tech.com

Serving the rail industry for over 50 years, Southern Technologies Corporation provides communications and signal equipment to improve efficiencies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southern-tech.com page load time and found that the first response time was 209 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southern-tech.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.003

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southern-tech.com

209 ms

www.southern-tech.com

122 ms

www.southern-tech.com

736 ms

main.css

62 ms

modernizr.dev.js

123 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Southern-tech.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (736 ms) belongs to the original domain Southern-tech.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (92%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

164.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southern-tech.com main page is 2.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 23.4 kB
  • After minification 20.5 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.9 kB, which is 12% 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 17.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-96%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 79.5 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. Obviously, Southern Tech needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.9 MB or 96% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 69.5 kB
  • After minification 69.5 kB
  • After compression 68.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 64 B

  • Original 10.9 kB
  • After minification 10.9 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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. Southern-tech.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (26%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern Tech. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

southern-tech.com

southern-tech.com

209 ms

www.southern-tech.com

www.southern-tech.com

122 ms

www.southern-tech.com

www.southern-tech.com

736 ms

main.css

main.css

62 ms

modernizr.dev.js

modernizr.dev.js

123 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

21 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

236 ms

jquery.matchHeight-min.js

jquery.matchHeight-min.js

238 ms

main.js

main.js

235 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

27 ms

blue-logo.svg

blue-logo.svg

122 ms

nav-bg.jpg

nav-bg.jpg

269 ms

white-logo.svg

white-logo.svg

128 ms

Jan_NS.png

Jan_NS.png

438 ms

ng2_new_chas_slide.png

ng2_new_chas_slide.png

320 ms

iCUBE_slide_B.png

iCUBE_slide_B.png

363 ms

2600020_slide_B.png

2600020_slide_B.png

438 ms

NG_slide_B.png

NG_slide_B.png

424 ms

Transcore_slide_B.png

Transcore_slide_B.png

423 ms

railcar_wheel.png

railcar_wheel.png

439 ms

h-4w.jpg

h-4w.jpg

423 ms

h-phone.svg

h-phone.svg

485 ms

f-1.png

f-1.png

483 ms

eagle_logo_2015.png

eagle_logo_2015.png

484 ms

collect

collect

59 ms

GothamNarrow-Book.woff

GothamNarrow-Book.woff

372 ms

icomoon.ttf

icomoon.ttf

376 ms

GothamNarrow-Medium.woff

GothamNarrow-Medium.woff

376 ms

GothamNarrow-Bold.woff

GothamNarrow-Bold.woff

419 ms

TradeGothicLTStd-BoldExt.woff

TradeGothicLTStd-BoldExt.woff

423 ms

TradeGothicLTStd-Extended.woff

TradeGothicLTStd-Extended.woff

423 ms

js

js

63 ms

Accessibility Review

southern-tech.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

[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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

southern-tech.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

southern-tech.com SEO score

80

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    UTF-8

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

southern-tech.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Southern Tech. 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: