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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

americanroads.com

American Roads - Transportation Infrastructure Solutions

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

294 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

572 ms

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About Website

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American Roads owns and operates transportation infrastructure that connects people to business and brings communities together.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americanroads.com page load time and found that the first response time was 294 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americanroads.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.074

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americanroads.com

294 ms

americanroads.com

170 ms

bootstrap_mxm.css

91 ms

style.css

620 ms

js

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Americanroads.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Americanroads.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (42%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Americanroads.com main page is 4.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 24.1 kB
  • After minification 15.7 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 8.4 kB, which is 35% 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 20.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 897 B

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB

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. American Roads images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 775.4 kB

  • Original 987.5 kB
  • After minification 894.8 kB
  • After compression 212.2 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 775.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 967.6 kB
  • After compression 96.9 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. Americanroads.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 92% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (64%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Roads. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

americanroads.com

americanroads.com

294 ms

americanroads.com

americanroads.com

170 ms

bootstrap_mxm.css

bootstrap_mxm.css

91 ms

style.css

style.css

620 ms

js

js

68 ms

jquery-3.7.0.min.js

jquery-3.7.0.min.js

161 ms

TweenMax.min.js

TweenMax.min.js

189 ms

jquery.waypoints.js

jquery.waypoints.js

159 ms

infinite.js

infinite.js

132 ms

jquery.counterup2.min.js

jquery.counterup2.min.js

131 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

198 ms

jquery-modal-video.js

jquery-modal-video.js

162 ms

jquery-smartphoto.js

jquery-smartphoto.js

250 ms

jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.js

jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.js

219 ms

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

197 ms

wow.js

wow.js

219 ms

jquery.filterizr.min.js

jquery.filterizr.min.js

227 ms

swiper.js

swiper.js

373 ms

particles_2.js

particles_2.js

247 ms

wavify.js

wavify.js

248 ms

jquery.wavify.js

jquery.wavify.js

256 ms

extend3.js

extend3.js

277 ms

flexslider_edit.js

flexslider_edit.js

279 ms

slideshow.js

slideshow.js

278 ms

filter_elements.js

filter_elements.js

286 ms

filter_items.js

filter_items.js

307 ms

infinite_edit.js

infinite_edit.js

308 ms

modal-video-photo_edit.js

modal-video-photo_edit.js

308 ms

masonry_count.js

masonry_count.js

315 ms

wow_edit.js

wow_edit.js

335 ms

filterizr_edit.js

filterizr_edit.js

336 ms

swiper_edit.js

swiper_edit.js

337 ms

particles_edit.js

particles_edit.js

343 ms

wavify_edit.js

wavify_edit.js

364 ms

logo.png

logo.png

40 ms

hdr_home_20240524.jpg

hdr_home_20240524.jpg

161 ms

pattern_caro.png

pattern_caro.png

41 ms

who-are-we.png

who-are-we.png

42 ms

background-m-16.jpg

background-m-16.jpg

1147 ms

pattern_cross.png

pattern_cross.png

41 ms

DWTOffice_NEW.jpg

DWTOffice_NEW.jpg

334 ms

Detroit.jpg

Detroit.jpg

161 ms

Montgomery.jpg

Montgomery.jpg

737 ms

Wetumpka.jpg

Wetumpka.jpg

565 ms

Tuscaloosa.jpg

Tuscaloosa.jpg

415 ms

OrangeBeach.jpg

OrangeBeach.jpg

335 ms

logo_light.png

logo_light.png

364 ms

WorkSans-Regular.ttf

WorkSans-Regular.ttf

476 ms

WorkSans-Medium.ttf

WorkSans-Medium.ttf

443 ms

WorkSans-Light.ttf

WorkSans-Light.ttf

499 ms

WorkSans-ExtraLight.ttf

WorkSans-ExtraLight.ttf

574 ms

WorkSans-Thin.ttf

WorkSans-Thin.ttf

634 ms

WorkSans-SemiBold.ttf

WorkSans-SemiBold.ttf

618 ms

WorkSans-Bold.ttf

WorkSans-Bold.ttf

729 ms

WorkSans-ExtraBold.ttf

WorkSans-ExtraBold.ttf

698 ms

WorkSans-Black.ttf

WorkSans-Black.ttf

743 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

696 ms

Accessibility Review

americanroads.com accessibility score

86

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

americanroads.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

americanroads.com SEO score

83

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    ZX

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Americanroads.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed language. Our system also found out that Americanroads.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

americanroads.com

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