Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 42

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

downcape.com

Down Cape Engineering, Inc. - Serving Yarmouth Port & Barnstable, MA

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

587 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

286 ms

downcape.com screenshot

About Website

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The civil engineers at Down Cape Engineering, Inc. offering land surveying, enviromental permiting, and other civil engineering services in the Yarmouth Port and Barnstable, MA, area. Call 508-362-454...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Downcape.com page load time and found that the first response time was 587 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

downcape.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value510 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.392

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

downcape.com

587 ms

www.downcape.com

503 ms

css

46 ms

bootstrap.min.css

332 ms

required.min.css

1040 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Downcape.com, 10% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Downcape.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (69%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

535.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Downcape.com main page is 1.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 887.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 20.9 kB
  • After minification 17.7 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 3.2 kB, which is 15% 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 16.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 266.8 kB
  • After minification 246.2 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. Down Cape images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 383.9 kB

  • Original 527.2 kB
  • After minification 479.7 kB
  • After compression 143.3 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 383.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 745.0 kB

  • Original 887.1 kB
  • After minification 876.0 kB
  • After compression 142.1 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. Downcape.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 745.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (42%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Down Cape. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

downcape.com accessibility score

42

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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

downcape.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

downcape.com SEO score

93

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Downcape.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 Downcape.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 Down Cape. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: