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Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

nicholsirrigation.com

Nichols Irrigation - Agriculture Irrigation and Drainage Systems : El Campo Texas

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

232 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

407 ms

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About Website

Welcome to nicholsirrigation.com homepage info - get ready to check Nichols Irrigation best content right away, or after learning these important things about nicholsirrigation.com

Nichols Irrigation offers complete Design, Sales, and Service of all types of irrigation, water delivery and drainage systems.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nicholsirrigation.com page load time and found that the first response time was 232 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nicholsirrigation.com performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.465

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nicholsirrigation.com

232 ms

www.nicholsirrigation.com

436 ms

bg.jpg

312 ms

abi.jpg

188 ms

T-L_logosm.gif

195 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Nicholsirrigation.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (442 ms) belongs to the original domain Nicholsirrigation.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 93.2 kB (25%)

Content Size

371.3 kB

After Optimization

278.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nicholsirrigation.com main page is 371.3 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 234.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 93.0 kB

  • Original 133.6 kB
  • After minification 132.7 kB
  • After compression 40.6 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 93.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 234.0 kB
  • After minification 234.0 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. Nichols Irrigation images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 211 B

  • Original 3.7 kB
  • After minification 3.7 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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. Nicholsirrigation.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nichols Irrigation. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

nicholsirrigation.com

nicholsirrigation.com

232 ms

www.nicholsirrigation.com

www.nicholsirrigation.com

436 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

312 ms

abi.jpg

abi.jpg

188 ms

T-L_logosm.gif

T-L_logosm.gif

195 ms

smalllaketransp.gif

smalllaketransp.gif

194 ms

hancor.jpg

hancor.jpg

194 ms

montezuma_logo.gif

montezuma_logo.gif

195 ms

style.css

style.css

286 ms

front.jpg

front.jpg

442 ms

victoriawebdesignlogoicon.png

victoriawebdesignlogoicon.png

302 ms

kredit.woff

kredit.woff

75 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

218 ms

fjalla.woff

fjalla.woff

136 ms

droid.woff

droid.woff

133 ms

Accessibility Review

nicholsirrigation.com accessibility score

64

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

nicholsirrigation.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

nicholsirrigation.com SEO score

86

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

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 Nicholsirrigation.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 Nicholsirrigation.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

nicholsirrigation.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Nichols Irrigation. 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: