Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

eppsplumbing.com

Epps Plumbing and Heating, Inc. – Plumbing and Heating Services

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

171 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

181 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eppsplumbing.com page load time and found that the first response time was 171 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eppsplumbing.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,980 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.002

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eppsplumbing.com

171 ms

css

26 ms

user.js

154 ms

jquery.js

120 ms

simplegallery.js

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Eppsplumbing.com, 13% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (314 ms) belongs to the original domain Eppsplumbing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 476.5 kB (52%)

Content Size

912.2 kB

After Optimization

435.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Eppsplumbing.com main page is 912.2 kB. 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. Javascripts take 542.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 95.0 kB

  • Original 123.6 kB
  • After minification 122.2 kB
  • After compression 28.5 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 95.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 219.8 kB
  • After minification 214.8 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. Epps Plumbing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 353.3 kB

  • Original 542.1 kB
  • After minification 523.6 kB
  • After compression 188.8 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 353.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 26.7 kB
  • After minification 18.8 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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. Eppsplumbing.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (45%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Epps Plumbing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

eppsplumbing.com accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

eppsplumbing.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

eppsplumbing.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Eppsplumbing.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 Eppsplumbing.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Epps Plumbing. 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: