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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

midwestlabs.com

MWL - Home

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

155 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

567 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Midwestlabs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 155 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

midwestlabs.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.653

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.midwestlabs.com

155 ms

midwestlabs.com

907 ms

etcdSn8F9wCaz4IumNR7SBf9D6MiJ5dBBAAA0

384 ms

font-awesome.min.css

42 ms

9918

305 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Midwestlabs.com, 25% (14 requests) were made to Files.webtreepro.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Skins.webtreepro.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Midwestlabs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 895.6 kB (11%)

Content Size

8.1 MB

After Optimization

7.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Midwestlabs.com main page is 8.1 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 7.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 77.5 kB

  • Original 95.1 kB
  • After minification 93.3 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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 77.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 505.5 kB

  • Original 7.4 MB
  • After minification 6.9 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. Midwestlabs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 234.2 kB
  • After minification 218.8 kB
  • After compression 213.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 292.2 kB

  • Original 361.1 kB
  • After minification 360.2 kB
  • After compression 68.9 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. Midwestlabs.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 292.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (35%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Midwestlabs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

midwestlabs.com accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

midwestlabs.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

midwestlabs.com SEO score

90

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

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 Midwestlabs.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 Midwestlabs.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 Midwestlabs. 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: