Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 45

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 0

    SEO

thehoustonblackpages.com

Black Owned Business Directory in Houston, TX - TheHoustonBlackPages.com: Houston Black Businesses, Black Businesses, Houston Black Business

Page Load Speed

31.8 sec in total

First Response

10.6 sec

Resources Loaded

19.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehoustonblackpages.com page load time and found that the first response time was 10.6 sec and then it took 21.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thehoustonblackpages.com performance score

0

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value186.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,020 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.311

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value142.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thehoustonblackpages.com

10629 ms

MainPgStyle.css

373 ms

style.css

958 ms

settings.css

773 ms

bootstrap.css

883 ms

Our browser made a total of 194 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (166 requests) were addressed to the original Thehoustonblackpages.com, 5% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Thehoustonblackpages.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (10%)

Content Size

16.5 MB

After Optimization

14.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Thehoustonblackpages.com main page is 16.5 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 15.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 346.1 kB

  • Original 498.4 kB
  • After minification 411.7 kB
  • After compression 152.3 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 86.7 kB, which is 17% 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 346.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 15.2 MB
  • After minification 14.1 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 Houston Black Pages images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 76.8 kB

  • Original 522.6 kB
  • After minification 522.6 kB
  • After compression 445.8 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 76.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 29.8 kB

  • Original 241.0 kB
  • After minification 241.0 kB
  • After compression 211.2 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. Thehoustonblackpages.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.8 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (32%)

Requests Now

179

After Optimization

121

The browser has sent 179 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Houston Black Pages. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thehoustonblackpages.com accessibility score

45

Accessibility Issues

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

SEO Factors

thehoustonblackpages.com SEO score

0

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 Thehoustonblackpages.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 Thehoustonblackpages.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 The Houston Black Pages. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: