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Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

vectren.com

Residential | Home Page | CenterPoint Energy

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

105 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

263 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Vectren content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about vectren.com

CenterPoint Energy, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a domestic energy delivery company that includes electric transmission & distribution, natural gas distribution and energy services operat...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vectren.com page load time and found that the first response time was 105 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vectren.com performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value37.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,900 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.712

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vectren.com

105 ms

residential

915 ms

corev15.css

51 ms

searchv15.css

63 ms

cnp-theme.css

118 ms

Our browser made a total of 167 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Vectren.com, 64% (107 requests) were made to Centerpointenergy.com and 5% (9 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Centerpointenergy.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (48%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vectren.com main page is 3.7 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. Javascripts take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 149.7 kB

  • Original 188.4 kB
  • After minification 175.9 kB
  • After compression 38.7 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 149.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 642.6 kB
  • After minification 629.0 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. Vectren images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 1.1 MB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 509.1 kB

  • Original 627.8 kB
  • After minification 502.9 kB
  • After compression 118.7 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. Vectren.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 509.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 109 (72%)

Requests Now

151

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 151 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vectren. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 83 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

vectren.com

vectren.com

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Accessibility Review

vectren.com accessibility score

77

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

vectren.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

vectren.com SEO score

77

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Vectren.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 Vectren.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

vectren.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Vectren. 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: