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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

southwestsignschicago.com

Welcome to Southwest Signs Inc.

Page Load Speed

20.4 sec in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

20.2 sec

Page Rendered

82 ms

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About Website

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Whether it is Large Format Printed Signs, Hand Lettered Paper Signs, Banners, or even a Logo we have the ability to attract the attention of your valued customers. Southwest Signs is the sign company ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southwestsignschicago.com page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 20.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

southwestsignschicago.com performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southwestsignschicago.com

78 ms

swfobject_modified.js

66 ms

SWS_logo.gif

24 ms

about_w.gif

38 ms

prod_w.gif

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Southwestsignschicago.com, 6% (1 request) were made to Adobe.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.1 sec) relates to the external source Adobe.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.2 kB (16%)

Content Size

147.6 kB

After Optimization

124.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Southwestsignschicago.com main page is 147.6 kB. 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 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 118.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 7.3 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 5.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 118.0 kB
  • After minification 117.9 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. Southwest Signs Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 13.2 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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 17.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (75%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southwest Signs Chicago. 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

southwestsignschicago.com

southwestsignschicago.com

78 ms

swfobject_modified.js

swfobject_modified.js

66 ms

SWS_logo.gif

SWS_logo.gif

24 ms

about_w.gif

about_w.gif

38 ms

prod_w.gif

prod_w.gif

43 ms

port_w.gif

port_w.gif

46 ms

cont_w.gif

cont_w.gif

40 ms

poli_w.gif

poli_w.gif

44 ms

faq_w.gif

faq_w.gif

56 ms

Home_p.jpg

Home_p.jpg

92 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

57 ms

get_flash_player.gif

get_flash_player.gif

20057 ms

about_g.gif

about_g.gif

21 ms

prod_g.gif

prod_g.gif

20 ms

port_g.gif

port_g.gif

18 ms

cont_g.gif

cont_g.gif

18 ms

poli_g.gif

poli_g.gif

20 ms

faq_g.gif

faq_g.gif

19 ms

Accessibility Review

southwestsignschicago.com accessibility score

56

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

southwestsignschicago.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

southwestsignschicago.com SEO score

58

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

High

Document uses plugins

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 Southwestsignschicago.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 Southwestsignschicago.com 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

southwestsignschicago.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Southwest Signs Chicago. 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: