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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

w4signs.com

Sign Shop serving Brighton, Michigan and Longmont, Colorado

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

509 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

164 ms

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About Website

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Full-service Sign Shop Serving Greater Brighton Michigan and Longmont Colorado. Vehicle Wraps, Building Signs, Design & More.

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Key Findings

We analyzed W4signs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 509 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

w4signs.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.w4signs.com

509 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

26 ms

style.css

52 ms

style.min.css

48 ms

jquery.js

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original W4signs.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (509 ms) belongs to the original domain W4signs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.6 kB (9%)

Content Size

743.8 kB

After Optimization

677.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of W4signs.com main page is 743.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 627.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 23.6 kB

  • Original 31.1 kB
  • After minification 30.3 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 23.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 40.3 kB

  • Original 627.6 kB
  • After minification 587.4 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. W4 Sign S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 104 B

  • Original 67.0 kB
  • After minification 67.0 kB
  • After compression 66.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 18.1 kB
  • After minification 18.1 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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. W4signs.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.7 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (47%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of W4 Sign S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.w4signs.com

www.w4signs.com

509 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

26 ms

style.css

style.css

52 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

48 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

79 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

51 ms

js

js

71 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

51 ms

public.css

public.css

56 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

65 ms

jquery.flexslider.min.js

jquery.flexslider.min.js

72 ms

ga.js

ga.js

65 ms

w4-signs-logo.png

w4-signs-logo.png

64 ms

bg-nav-left.png

bg-nav-left.png

57 ms

wall-tatoo-banner.png

wall-tatoo-banner.png

128 ms

brick-wrap-banner.png

brick-wrap-banner.png

127 ms

truck-wrap-banner.png

truck-wrap-banner.png

143 ms

building-signs-banner1.png

building-signs-banner1.png

126 ms

vehicle-wrap-home.jpg

vehicle-wrap-home.jpg

58 ms

exterior-sign-home.jpg

exterior-sign-home.jpg

79 ms

banners-home.jpg

banners-home.jpg

80 ms

home-brand-intro.jpg

home-brand-intro.jpg

125 ms

retail-case-study.jpg

retail-case-study.jpg

124 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

47 ms

spacer.png

spacer.png

43 ms

black_background.png

black_background.png

55 ms

w4-section-divider.png

w4-section-divider.png

55 ms

column-border.png

column-border.png

56 ms

h2-arrow-background.png

h2-arrow-background.png

57 ms

bg-newsletter.png

bg-newsletter.png

62 ms

footer-social.gif

footer-social.gif

61 ms

Accessibility Review

w4signs.com accessibility score

68

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

w4signs.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

SEO Factors

w4signs.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 W4signs.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 W4signs.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

w4signs.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of W4 Sign S. 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: