Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 85

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

craftsman-book.com

Craftsman Book Company publishers of Construction Books & software

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

201 ms

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About Website

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Craftsman publishes books and software for construction professionals. Publishers of National Estimator Cloud, Construction Contract Writer, National Construction Estimator, National Appraisal Estimat...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Craftsman-book.com page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 3.5 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

craftsman-book.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,660 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

craftsman-book.com

241 ms

www.craftsman-book.com

243 ms

www.craftsman-book.com

1486 ms

40f3617cebf028a5d7153e67c349e4e7.css

252 ms

44b018c7a0de07300307b4b8954dc6da.js

736 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Craftsman-book.com, 11% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Craftsman-book.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 858.5 kB (56%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

680.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Craftsman-book.com main page is 1.5 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 603.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 15.9 kB
  • After minification 14.5 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 11.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 479.3 kB
  • After minification 472.5 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. Craftsman Book images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 449.1 kB

  • Original 603.4 kB
  • After minification 499.2 kB
  • After compression 154.3 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 449.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 391.2 kB

  • Original 440.8 kB
  • After minification 352.7 kB
  • After compression 49.6 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. Craftsman-book.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 391.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Craftsman Book. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

craftsman-book.com accessibility score

73

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

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

craftsman-book.com best practices score

85

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

craftsman-book.com SEO score

77

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Craftsman-book.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Craftsman-book.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 Craftsman Book. 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: