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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

birchheating.com

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Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

930 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Birchheating.com page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

birchheating.com performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

birchheating.com

170 ms

swap.js

36 ms

external_forms.js

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Birchheating.com, 33% (1 request) were made to Cdn.calltrk.com and 33% (1 request) were made to Js.calltrk.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (170 ms) belongs to the original domain Birchheating.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 529.8 kB (15%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Birchheating.com main page is 3.6 MB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 262.6 kB

  • Original 327.9 kB
  • After minification 327.8 kB
  • After compression 65.3 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 262.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 59.2 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Birch Heating images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 203.4 kB

  • Original 678.8 kB
  • After minification 678.8 kB
  • After compression 475.4 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 203.4 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 5.9 kB
  • After minification 5.9 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Birchheating.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

2

After Optimization

2

  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 2 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Birch Heating. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

birchheating.com accessibility score

85

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

birchheating.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

SEO Factors

birchheating.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Birchheating.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 Birchheating.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 PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: