Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

wardslawncare.com

WARDS LAWN CARE & LANDSCAPE CO., INC.

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

235 ms

wardslawncare.com screenshot

About Website

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Wards Lawn Care & Landscape Co., Inc. is devoted to fulfilling the specific lawn and landscape needs that our customers have come to expect and trust. Customer satisfaction is our business!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wardslawncare.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wardslawncare.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,470 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wardslawncare.com

1190 ms

master.css

43 ms

icwebsiteelement.css

86 ms

ic_globals_published.js

125 ms

user.js

177 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Wardslawncare.com, 9% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Wardslawncare.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.5 kB (16%)

Content Size

460.6 kB

After Optimization

389.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Wardslawncare.com main page is 460.6 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. 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. Javascripts take 217.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 24.8 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 20.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 155.2 kB
  • After minification 152.3 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. WARDS LAWN CARE images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 47.2 kB

  • Original 217.0 kB
  • After minification 216.6 kB
  • After compression 169.8 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 47.2 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 62.6 kB
  • After minification 62.6 kB
  • After compression 61.5 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. Wardslawncare.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (26%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WARDS LAWN CARE. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wardslawncare.com accessibility score

58

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

wardslawncare.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wardslawncare.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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wardslawncare.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 Wardslawncare.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 WARDS LAWN CARE. 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: