Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

southernfireplaces.com

Homewood Fireplace - Southern Fireplaces | Homewood, AL | Home

Page Load Speed

408 ms in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

169 ms

Page Rendered

80 ms

southernfireplaces.com screenshot

About Website

Visit southernfireplaces.com now to see the best up-to-date Southern Fireplaces content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about southernfireplaces.com

Southern Fireplaces Homewood specializes in direct vent fireplaces and products for all applications indoors and out. We carry only the highest quality fireplaces and BBQ grills in the industry.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southernfireplaces.com page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 249 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southernfireplaces.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.183

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southernfireplaces.com

159 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Southernfireplaces.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (159 ms) belongs to the original domain Southernfireplaces.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 149.5 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Southernfireplaces.com main page is 1.2 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 836.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 11 B

  • Original 106 B
  • After minification 105 B
  • After compression 95 B

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. This web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 836.4 kB
  • After minification 836.4 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. Southern Fireplaces images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 97.3 kB

  • Original 231.4 kB
  • After minification 193.7 kB
  • After compression 134.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 97.3 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 52.2 kB

  • Original 92.4 kB
  • After minification 88.3 kB
  • After compression 40.2 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. Southernfireplaces.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.2 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

southernfireplaces.com accessibility score

53

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

southernfireplaces.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

southernfireplaces.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southernfireplaces.com 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 Southernfireplaces.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 Southern Fireplaces. 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: