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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% 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

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

thelizardguys.com

The Lizard Guys - New Jersey NJ / New York NY live animal & reptile birthday parties and shows

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

181 ms

thelizardguys.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to thelizardguys.com homepage info - get ready to check The Lizard Guys best content right away, or after learning these important things about thelizardguys.com

Blending entertainment and education, the Lizard Guys put on a show that is simply awesome! Based in NJ, they have developed an idea into a blossoming industry.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thelizardguys.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thelizardguys.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thelizardguys.com

1206 ms

lizard.css

108 ms

group_no_Jon_200x276.jpg

349 ms

facebook_logo_51x51.jpg

407 ms

horizontal_rule_830.jpg

1199 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Thelizardguys.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Thelizardguys.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 36.4 kB (4%)

Content Size

924.7 kB

After Optimization

888.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thelizardguys.com main page is 924.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 893.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 19.1 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 6.6 kB, which is 26% 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 20.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 893.4 kB
  • After minification 882.3 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 Lizard Guys images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 5.6 kB
  • After minification 4.4 kB
  • After compression 766 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. Thelizardguys.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Lizard Guys. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

thelizardguys.com

thelizardguys.com

1206 ms

lizard.css

lizard.css

108 ms

group_no_Jon_200x276.jpg

group_no_Jon_200x276.jpg

349 ms

facebook_logo_51x51.jpg

facebook_logo_51x51.jpg

407 ms

horizontal_rule_830.jpg

horizontal_rule_830.jpg

1199 ms

Peas_and_Carrots_link_276x200.jpg

Peas_and_Carrots_link_276x200.jpg

494 ms

PeasAndCarrotsBand_link_276x200.jpg

PeasAndCarrotsBand_link_276x200.jpg

352 ms

header_bg.jpg

header_bg.jpg

900 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

306 ms

mid_bg.jpg

mid_bg.jpg

910 ms

footer.jpg

footer.jpg

2090 ms

Accessibility Review

thelizardguys.com accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

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

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

thelizardguys.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

thelizardguys.com SEO score

58

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thelizardguys.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 Thelizardguys.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

thelizardguys.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Lizard Guys. 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: