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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

thegrillsmith.com

Ottawa Gas Technicians - BBQ Tune-up & Repair | The Grill Smith

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

994 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

178 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegrillsmith.com page load time and found that the first response time was 994 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thegrillsmith.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thegrillsmith.com

994 ms

bootstrap.min.css

251 ms

flexslider.css

134 ms

style.css

190 ms

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

198 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Thegrillsmith.com, 15% (9 requests) were made to Thegrillsmith.beamlocal2.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (994 ms) belongs to the original domain Thegrillsmith.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 484.5 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

649.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thegrillsmith.com main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 503.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 26.5 kB
  • After minification 25.6 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 20.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 29.9 kB

  • Original 503.2 kB
  • After minification 473.2 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. The Grill Smith images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 284.6 kB

  • Original 419.7 kB
  • After minification 406.0 kB
  • After compression 135.1 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 284.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 149.2 kB

  • Original 184.2 kB
  • After minification 174.9 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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. Thegrillsmith.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 149.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (68%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Grill Smith. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thegrillsmith.com

thegrillsmith.com

994 ms

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bootstrap.min.css

251 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

134 ms

style.css

style.css

190 ms

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

198 ms

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141 ms

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143 ms

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215 ms

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219 ms

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218 ms

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286 ms

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287 ms

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style.css

299 ms

css

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16 ms

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jquery-ui.min.css

354 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

410 ms

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jquery-migrate.min.js

332 ms

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jquery.flexslider-min.js

341 ms

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422 ms

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chosen.jquery.min.js

436 ms

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423 ms

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98 ms

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626 ms

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bootstrap.min.js

434 ms

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jquery.history.js

559 ms

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front.js

559 ms

ad-layout-media-components.js

ad-layout-media-components.js

558 ms

front.js

front.js

559 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

560 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

568 ms

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

568 ms

jquery.flexslider.min.js

jquery.flexslider.min.js

570 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

606 ms

devicepx-jetpack.js

devicepx-jetpack.js

11 ms

jquery.ui.core.min.js

jquery.ui.core.min.js

599 ms

jquery.ui.datepicker.min.js

jquery.ui.datepicker.min.js

648 ms

jquery.ui.widget.min.js

jquery.ui.widget.min.js

647 ms

jquery.ui.button.min.js

jquery.ui.button.min.js

652 ms

jquery.ui.spinner.min.js

jquery.ui.spinner.min.js

680 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

40 ms

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221 ms

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25 ms

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74 ms

Accessibility Review

thegrillsmith.com accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

thegrillsmith.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

SEO Factors

thegrillsmith.com SEO score

83

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thegrillsmith.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 Thegrillsmith.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

thegrillsmith.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Grill Smith. 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: