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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

thegarageguys.com

The Garage Guys at Affordable Construction | Central & Eastern IOWA

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

50 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

543 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegarageguys.com page load time and found that the first response time was 50 ms and then it took 2.2 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

thegarageguys.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.033

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thegarageguys.com

50 ms

league-spartan.css

17 ms

script.js

38 ms

UX.4.40.0.js

37 ms

script.js

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thegarageguys.com, 94% (16 requests) were made to Img1.wsimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Img1.wsimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 586.0 kB (16%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thegarageguys.com main page is 3.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 147.1 kB

  • Original 170.8 kB
  • After minification 170.7 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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 147.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 307.5 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. The Garage Guys images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 131.3 kB

  • Original 277.9 kB
  • After minification 277.9 kB
  • After compression 146.6 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 131.3 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 24 B

  • Original 182 B
  • After minification 182 B
  • After compression 158 B

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. Thegarageguys.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24 B or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (20%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Garage Guys. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thegarageguys.com

thegarageguys.com

50 ms

league-spartan.css

league-spartan.css

17 ms

script.js

script.js

38 ms

UX.4.40.0.js

UX.4.40.0.js

37 ms

script.js

script.js

40 ms

rs=w:1920,m

rs=w:1920,m

1524 ms

rs=w:1920,m

rs=w:1920,m

486 ms

rs=w:1920,m

rs=w:1920,m

1063 ms

qt=q:95

qt=q:95

99 ms

rs=w:1240,h:620,cg:true

rs=w:1240,h:620,cg:true

163 ms

rs=w:600,h:300,cg:true,m

rs=w:600,h:300,cg:true,m

153 ms

rs=w:600,h:300,cg:true,m

rs=w:600,h:300,cg:true,m

242 ms

rs=w:1920,m

rs=w:1920,m

563 ms

rs=w:1920,m

rs=w:1920,m

677 ms

rs=w:515,h:234,cg:true

rs=w:515,h:234,cg:true

305 ms

scc-c2.min.js

scc-c2.min.js

301 ms

LeagueSpartan.woff

LeagueSpartan.woff

72 ms

Accessibility Review

thegarageguys.com accessibility score

89

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

Best Practices

thegarageguys.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thegarageguys.com SEO score

85

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

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 Thegarageguys.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 Thegarageguys.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

thegarageguys.com

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