Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

valleypest.net

Residential Pest Control Yakima | Pest Control Yakima | Valley Pest Control

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

292 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

389 ms

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About Website

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Valley Pest Control offers residential pest control services to Yakima, West Valley, Terrace Heights, Selah, Moxee, Gleed, Naches, Tieton, and Cowiche.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Valleypest.net page load time and found that the first response time was 292 ms and then it took 3.4 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

valleypest.net performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,080 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.209

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

valleypest.net

292 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

33 ms

css

39 ms

autoptimize_single_c6e104541286c0a302f8dcf2232619ae.css

62 ms

jquery.js

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Valleypest.net, 20% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (4 requests) were made to Staging.bigtuna.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (359 ms) relates to the external source Staging.bigtuna.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 284.3 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Valleypest.net 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 699.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 275.3 kB

  • Original 334.3 kB
  • After minification 334.0 kB
  • After compression 59.1 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 275.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 699.3 kB
  • After minification 693.3 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. Valley Pest images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 370.4 kB
  • After minification 370.4 kB
  • After compression 367.3 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 24 B

  • Original 5.1 kB
  • After minification 5.1 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. Valleypest.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (63%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Valley Pest. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

valleypest.net accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

valleypest.net best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

valleypest.net SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Valleypest.net 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 Valleypest.net 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 Valley Pest. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: