Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

specialtiesplusofnc.com

Specialties Plus of NC LLC | Branding and Marketing: Home

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

428 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Specialties Plus, a family owned, North Carolina based promotional product distributor with more than 30 years of service.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Specialtiesplusofnc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 428 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

specialtiesplusofnc.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,550 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.132

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.specialtiesplusofnc.com

428 ms

bootstrap.min.css

65 ms

css

41 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

101 ms

flexslider.css

151 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Specialtiesplusofnc.com, 5% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (774 ms) belongs to the original domain Specialtiesplusofnc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 239.5 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Specialtiesplusofnc.com main page is 1.8 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 999.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 52.5 kB

  • Original 64.7 kB
  • After minification 57.2 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.4 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 52.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 56.1 kB

  • Original 999.2 kB
  • After minification 943.1 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. Specialties Plus Of NC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 69.2 kB

  • Original 432.1 kB
  • After minification 431.6 kB
  • After compression 363.0 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 69.2 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 61.8 kB

  • Original 277.5 kB
  • After minification 277.5 kB
  • After compression 215.7 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. Specialtiesplusofnc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 61.8 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (43%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Specialties Plus Of NC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

specialtiesplusofnc.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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

specialtiesplusofnc.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

specialtiesplusofnc.com SEO score

93

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Specialtiesplusofnc.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 Specialtiesplusofnc.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 Specialties Plus Of NC. 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: