Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

thesignstudio.com

The Sign Studio - Nationwide sign supplier

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

77 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

162 ms

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About Website

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Sign Studio makes big commercial signs. We ship big site signs in 24 hours nationwide.1-800-THE-SIGN specializes in commercial real estate signs. Orders are manufactured and shipped within 24 hours fo...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesignstudio.com page load time and found that the first response time was 77 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thesignstudio.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesignstudio.com

77 ms

www.thesignstudio.com

661 ms

js

75 ms

default.js

30 ms

default.css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Thesignstudio.com, 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (661 ms) belongs to the original domain Thesignstudio.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.4 kB (5%)

Content Size

224.4 kB

After Optimization

213.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Thesignstudio.com main page is 224.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 205.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 8.4 kB
  • After minification 7.8 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 5.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 363 B

  • Original 205.7 kB
  • After minification 205.3 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 Sign Studio images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 8.5 kB
  • After minification 8.5 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 3.5 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 557 B

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Thesignstudio.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 557 B or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Sign Studio. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

thesignstudio.com accessibility score

64

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thesignstudio.com best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thesignstudio.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thesignstudio.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 Thesignstudio.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Sign Studio. 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: