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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

thesignguy.com

The Sign Guy & Cascade Wraps by The Sign Guy | Portland, OR Metro Area & Beyond

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

198 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

225 ms

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About Website

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Providing the Portland Metro area and beyond with Custom Signs, Fast, Friendly, and Reliable Service. Your Sign is Only Limited by Your Imagination.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesignguy.com page load time and found that the first response time was 198 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thesignguy.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value780 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.353

31/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesignguy.com

198 ms

thesignguy.com

367 ms

js

67 ms

wp_head.css

95 ms

pagenavi-css.css

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Thesignguy.com, 49% (28 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (636 ms) belongs to the original domain Thesignguy.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 170.7 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thesignguy.com main page is 1.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 151.6 kB

  • Original 183.6 kB
  • After minification 181.9 kB
  • After compression 32.0 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. 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 151.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 993.9 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 Sign Guy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 557 B

  • Original 216.5 kB
  • After minification 216.5 kB
  • After compression 216.0 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 346 B

  • Original 18.7 kB
  • After minification 18.5 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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. Thesignguy.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (69%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Sign Guy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thesignguy.com

thesignguy.com

198 ms

thesignguy.com

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367 ms

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67 ms

wp_head.css

wp_head.css

95 ms

pagenavi-css.css

pagenavi-css.css

136 ms

style.css

style.css

195 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

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211 ms

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js

49 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

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204 ms

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204 ms

jquery.min.js

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303 ms

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248 ms

scripts.min.js

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348 ms

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301 ms

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300 ms

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300 ms

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388 ms

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385 ms

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384 ms

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88 ms

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252 ms

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163 ms

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162 ms

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233 ms

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270 ms

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Accessibility Review

thesignguy.com accessibility score

70

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thesignguy.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thesignguy.com SEO score

93

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

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 Thesignguy.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 Thesignguy.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

thesignguy.com

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