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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

southshorecremation.com

South Shore Online Cremation | Cremation Services Lake County, IN

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

236 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

466 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southshorecremation.com page load time and found that the first response time was 236 ms and then it took 4.1 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

southshorecremation.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,180 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.089

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.southshorecremation.com

236 ms

font-awesome.min.css

64 ms

slick.css

67 ms

js

95 ms

style.min.css

216 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Southshorecremation.com, 10% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (5 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Southshorecremation.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (28%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southshorecremation.com main page is 3.8 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 964.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 128.2 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 964.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 52.1 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. South Shore Cremation images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 37.5 kB

  • Original 417.4 kB
  • After minification 417.4 kB
  • After compression 379.9 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 93.7 kB
  • After minification 93.6 kB
  • After compression 82.9 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. Southshorecremation.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.8 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (74%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of South Shore Cremation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 33 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.southshorecremation.com

www.southshorecremation.com

236 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

64 ms

slick.css

slick.css

67 ms

js

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95 ms

style.min.css

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216 ms

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54 ms

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227 ms

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55 ms

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256 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

65 ms

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250 ms

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woocommerce.css

72 ms

style.css

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271 ms

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80 ms

addthis_wordpress_public.min.css

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89 ms

jquery.min.js

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139 ms

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138 ms

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139 ms

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140 ms

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198 ms

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138 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

250 ms

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198 ms

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218 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

jquery.blockUI.min.js

250 ms

woocommerce.min.js

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249 ms

jquery.cookie.min.js

jquery.cookie.min.js

266 ms

cart-fragments.min.js

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265 ms

swap.js

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66 ms

mpj8fmr.css

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130 ms

p.css

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52 ms

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36 ms

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343 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

174 ms

header-logo.png

header-logo.png

172 ms

gold-checkmark-27x27.png

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420 ms

Southshore_Updated_Hero.jpg

Southshore_Updated_Hero.jpg

421 ms

step_1_phone.png

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420 ms

step_2_ambulance.png

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384 ms

step_3_diploma.png

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172 ms

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172 ms

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421 ms

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501 ms

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1062 ms

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422 ms

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1134 ms

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1059 ms

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453 ms

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1058 ms

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501 ms

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693 ms

south-shore-footer.svg

south-shore-footer.svg

501 ms

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230 ms

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192 ms

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314 ms

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350 ms

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394 ms

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obits.css

532 ms

print.css

print.css

500 ms

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style-new-obit.css

875 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

260 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

woocommerce-layout.css

550 ms

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589 ms

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woocommerce.css

626 ms

style.css

style.css

672 ms

app.ef65ea0d9a04b28a9acab9f5ac5af683.css

app.ef65ea0d9a04b28a9acab9f5ac5af683.css

702 ms

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addthis_wordpress_public.min.css

751 ms

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919 ms

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234 ms

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187 ms

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192 ms

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760 ms

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36 ms

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16 ms

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18 ms

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198 ms

Accessibility Review

southshorecremation.com accessibility score

68

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

southshorecremation.com best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

southshorecremation.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

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 Southshorecremation.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 Southshorecremation.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

southshorecremation.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of South Shore Cremation. 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: