Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

layer2communications.com

IT Networking Hardware Services. MPLS, VPLS, DIA, Business Wi-Fi

Page Load Speed

889 ms in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

696 ms

Page Rendered

137 ms

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About Website

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Houston based Layer2 specializes in IT Networking Hardware and Services. MPLS, VPLS, DIA, Business Wi-Fi and Ethernet. Juniper, Brocade, Silverpeak Zyxel.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Layer2communications.com page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 833 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

layer2communications.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,740 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.176

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.1 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.layer2communications.com

56 ms

js

66 ms

style.min.css

142 ms

style-front-opt-in-hound.css

158 ms

mb.YTPlayer.css

150 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Layer2communications.com, 76% (66 requests) were made to 4044ce.a2cdn1.secureserver.net and 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (336 ms) relates to the external source Platform.vine.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 135.8 kB (16%)

Content Size

837.4 kB

After Optimization

701.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Layer2communications.com main page is 837.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 414.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 112.6 kB

  • Original 140.8 kB
  • After minification 138.3 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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. 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 112.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 130.4 kB
  • After minification 130.4 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. Layer 2 Communications images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 414.8 kB
  • After minification 414.8 kB
  • After compression 406.0 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 151.3 kB
  • After minification 151.3 kB
  • After compression 137.0 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. Layer2communications.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (79%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Layer 2 Communications. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

layer2communications.com accessibility score

75

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

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

layer2communications.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

layer2communications.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Layer2communications.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 Layer2communications.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 Layer 2 Communications. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: