Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

westpointbuilders.com

West Point Builders | Home Builder in Illinois and Indiana

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

133 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

460 ms

westpointbuilders.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing West Point Builders content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about westpointbuilders.com

West Point Builders has evolved into one of the most respected home builders in the Chicago area. We build homes in Elgin, Oswego, as well as Merriville and St John Indiana

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westpointbuilders.com page load time and found that the first response time was 133 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westpointbuilders.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,540 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westpointbuilders.com

133 ms

westpointbuilders.com

252 ms

gtm.js

139 ms

style.min.css

214 ms

style.css

268 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Westpointbuilders.com, 13% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Widgetbe.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (753 ms) belongs to the original domain Westpointbuilders.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 327.4 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Westpointbuilders.com main page is 1.8 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. 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. Images take 950.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 109.0 kB

  • Original 132.0 kB
  • After minification 128.3 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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 109.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 33.8 kB

  • Original 950.0 kB
  • After minification 916.1 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. West Point Builders images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 182.8 kB

  • Original 642.9 kB
  • After minification 642.9 kB
  • After compression 460.1 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 182.8 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 60.2 kB
  • After minification 60.0 kB
  • After compression 58.3 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. Westpointbuilders.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (66%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of West Point Builders. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

westpointbuilders.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Best Practices

westpointbuilders.com best practices score

75

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

westpointbuilders.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 Westpointbuilders.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 Westpointbuilders.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of West Point Builders. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: