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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

whyskylights.com

Bring Your Home Design Ideas to Life with VELUX Skylights

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

750 ms

Page Rendered

792 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whyskylights.com page load time and found that the first response time was 55 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

whyskylights.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,920 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

whyskylights.com

55 ms

whyskylights.com

92 ms

index.85b4700c7c933c4e7aee352e5b1aefafb8210963bf7b0c66709d9d70e5439ca0.css

43 ms

uc.js

180 ms

index.min.ef4d9df851083fbb18c6ac5c7bf631b1be280e52fd02d81511f54596998af6db.js

319 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Whyskylights.com, 46% (17 requests) were made to Whyskylights-com.s3.amazonaws.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (445 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.userway.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 94.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Whyskylights.com main page is 1.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 990.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 77.8 kB

  • Original 89.0 kB
  • After minification 64.3 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 24.7 kB, which is 28% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 77.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 990.7 kB
  • After minification 990.7 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. Why Skylights images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 148.0 kB
  • After minification 148.0 kB
  • After compression 131.5 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 16.5 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 59 B

  • Original 51.4 kB
  • After minification 51.4 kB
  • After compression 51.4 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. Whyskylights.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (39%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Why Skylights. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

whyskylights.com

whyskylights.com

55 ms

whyskylights.com

whyskylights.com

92 ms

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index.85b4700c7c933c4e7aee352e5b1aefafb8210963bf7b0c66709d9d70e5439ca0.css

43 ms

uc.js

uc.js

180 ms

index.min.ef4d9df851083fbb18c6ac5c7bf631b1be280e52fd02d81511f54596998af6db.js

index.min.ef4d9df851083fbb18c6ac5c7bf631b1be280e52fd02d81511f54596998af6db.js

319 ms

bv.js

bv.js

213 ms

3376806.js

3376806.js

242 ms

3376806.js

3376806.js

177 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

287 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

323 ms

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5FEMYw4wKbJ25fM9J.png

246 ms

icon-calendar.svg

icon-calendar.svg

270 ms

widget.js

widget.js

445 ms

hotjar-326416.js

hotjar-326416.js

270 ms

icon-compass.svg

icon-compass.svg

233 ms

solar-powered-fresh-air-skylights-blue-blinds.png

solar-powered-fresh-air-skylights-blue-blinds.png

248 ms

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electric-fresh-air-skylights-blue-blinds.png

242 ms

manual-fresh-air-skylights-blue-blinds.png

manual-fresh-air-skylights-blue-blinds.png

283 ms

app-store.png

app-store.png

259 ms

Product-SunTunnel.png

Product-SunTunnel.png

256 ms

77-Velux-0010.jpg

77-Velux-0010.jpg

281 ms

Screen-Shot-2017-12-21-at-1.29.40-PM.png

Screen-Shot-2017-12-21-at-1.29.40-PM.png

302 ms

Screen-Shot-2017-12-21-at-1.33.02-PM.jpg

Screen-Shot-2017-12-21-at-1.33.02-PM.jpg

266 ms

replacing-old-skylight.png

replacing-old-skylight.png

399 ms

Pinterest-grey.svg

Pinterest-grey.svg

276 ms

Facebook-grey.svg

Facebook-grey.svg

287 ms

Twitter-Grey.svg

Twitter-Grey.svg

291 ms

Instagram-grey.svg

Instagram-grey.svg

395 ms

logo-velux.svg

logo-velux.svg

176 ms

logo-velux-inverted.svg

logo-velux-inverted.svg

189 ms

VeluxGothic-Regular.woff

VeluxGothic-Regular.woff

286 ms

leadflows.js

leadflows.js

180 ms

web-interactives-embed.js

web-interactives-embed.js

207 ms

banner.js

banner.js

205 ms

3376806.js

3376806.js

216 ms

conversations-embed.js

conversations-embed.js

204 ms

VeluxGothic-Bold.woff

VeluxGothic-Bold.woff

212 ms

Accessibility Review

whyskylights.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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 IDs are not unique

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

whyskylights.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

whyskylights.com SEO score

84

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

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 Whyskylights.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 Whyskylights.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

whyskylights.com

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