Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

gnnorthern.com

GN Northern - Geotechnical Engineering and Environmental Consulting Services

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

215 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

111 ms

gnnorthern.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to gnnorthern.com homepage info - get ready to check GN Northern best content right away, or after learning these important things about gnnorthern.com

GN Northern is an engineering, environmental consulting & construction materials testing firm with offices in Washington State and Oregon.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gnnorthern.com page load time and found that the first response time was 215 ms and then it took 2.6 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

gnnorthern.com performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gnnorthern.com

215 ms

www.gnnorthern.com

232 ms

layout2.css

70 ms

slider.css

892 ms

jquery-1.5.1.min.js

198 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Gnnorthern.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Gnnorthern.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.4 kB (3%)

Content Size

347.8 kB

After Optimization

337.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Gnnorthern.com main page is 347.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 294.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 11.4 kB
  • After minification 11.2 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 7.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 282 B

  • Original 294.9 kB
  • After minification 294.6 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. GN Northern images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 37.1 kB
  • After minification 37.1 kB
  • After compression 36.1 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

-28%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 4.4 kB
  • After minification 4.4 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. Gnnorthern.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GN Northern. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

gnnorthern.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

gnnorthern.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

SEO Factors

gnnorthern.com SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gnnorthern.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 Gnnorthern.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 GN Northern. 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: