Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

nedchicago.com

Chicago, IL Mold, Asbestos, and Lead testing, removal and abatement

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

976 ms

Page Rendered

289 ms

nedchicago.com screenshot

About Website

Visit nedchicago.com now to see the best up-to-date Ned Chicago content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about nedchicago.com

NED has been servicing Chicago homes and businesses for over 20 years and offers a full spectrum of services for your Asbestos, Lead, or Mold problems

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nedchicago.com page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 1.3 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

nedchicago.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.9 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nedchicago.com

57 ms

nedchicago.com

146 ms

module.css

75 ms

styles.css

126 ms

style.min.css

106 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Nedchicago.com, 22% (9 requests) were made to Northernenv.wpengine.com and 22% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (616 ms) relates to the external source Northernenv.wpengine.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 161.4 kB (41%)

Content Size

391.2 kB

After Optimization

229.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Nedchicago.com main page is 391.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 183.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 154.1 kB

  • Original 183.8 kB
  • After minification 181.4 kB
  • After compression 29.7 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 154.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 79.0 kB
  • After minification 73.4 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. Ned Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 125.6 kB
  • After minification 125.6 kB
  • After compression 124.1 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 205 B

  • Original 2.8 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. Nedchicago.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (62%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ned Chicago. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nedchicago.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

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

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

nedchicago.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

nedchicago.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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Nedchicago.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 Nedchicago.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 Ned Chicago. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: