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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

hbgcolumns.com

Home - HB&G Building Products, Inc.

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

384 ms

About Website

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HB&G is the largest manufacturer of high-quality indoor and outdoor columns in the country. Our products range from porch columns to railings and balustrade systems to outdoor living products, with a ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hbgcolumns.com page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 2 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

hbgcolumns.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,660 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.978

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hbgcolumns.com

39 ms

www.hbgcolumns.com

211 ms

gtm.js

60 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

17 ms

all.css

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Hbgcolumns.com, 6% (5 requests) were made to Google.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (748 ms) belongs to the original domain Hbgcolumns.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 580.7 kB (19%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hbgcolumns.com main page is 3.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 52.7 kB

  • Original 62.8 kB
  • After minification 46.5 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 16.3 kB, which is 26% 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 52.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 381.6 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Obviously, HB Gcolumns needs image optimization as it can save up to 381.6 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 110.6 kB

  • Original 759.4 kB
  • After minification 759.3 kB
  • After compression 648.8 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 110.6 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 197.7 kB
  • After minification 197.7 kB
  • After compression 162.0 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. Hbgcolumns.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.7 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (59%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HB Gcolumns. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

hbgcolumns.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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

hbgcolumns.com best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hbgcolumns.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 Hbgcolumns.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 Hbgcolumns.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 description is not detected on the main page of HB Gcolumns. 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: