Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% 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

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

thedryingco.com

Basement Waterproofing & Home Insulation Company in Greater Richmond, Richmond, Williamsburg, Henrico, VA

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

680 ms

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About Website

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The Drying Co./ThermalTec provides reliable home improvement solutions in Greater Richmond including - Richmond, Williamsburg, Henrico & nearby. We specialize in basement waterproofing, crawl space en...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thedryingco.com page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thedryingco.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.205

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thedryingco.com

60 ms

www.thedryingco.com

18 ms

www.thedryingco.com

303 ms

gtm.js

117 ms

css

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Thedryingco.com, 31% (27 requests) were made to Cdn.treehouseinternetgroup.com and 14% (12 requests) were made to A80427d48f9b9f165d8d-c913073b3759fb31d6b728a919676eab.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (783 ms) relates to the external source I.ytimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 228.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Thedryingco.com main page is 2.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 87.8 kB

  • Original 106.8 kB
  • After minification 94.6 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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 12.3 kB, which is 11% 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 87.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Thedryingco images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 118.9 kB
  • After minification 118.9 kB
  • After compression 111.2 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

-68%

Potential reduce by 126.6 kB

  • Original 187.3 kB
  • After minification 184.7 kB
  • After compression 60.6 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. Thedryingco.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 126.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (39%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thedryingco. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thedryingco.com accessibility score

68

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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-*] attributes do not have valid values

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.

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

thedryingco.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thedryingco.com SEO score

84

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 Thedryingco.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 Thedryingco.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 data is detected on the main page of Thedryingco. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: