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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

plygem.ca

Residential Building Products - Exterior Home Building Products

Page Load Speed

683 ms in total

First Response

86 ms

Resources Loaded

524 ms

Page Rendered

73 ms

plygem.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit plygem.ca now to see the best up-to-date Plygem content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about plygem.ca

Ply Gem is the #1 exterior home building products manufacturer in North America. Browse our vast selection of residential building products.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plygem.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 86 ms and then it took 597 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

plygem.ca performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

plygem.ca

86 ms

count.js

246 ms

spacer.gif

41 ms

eznet.gif

78 ms

ctin.php

189 ms

Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Plygem.ca, 40% (2 requests) were made to Count.carrierzone.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (246 ms) relates to the external source Count.carrierzone.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 31.4 kB (84%)

Content Size

37.5 kB

After Optimization

6.1 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Plygem.ca main page is 37.5 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 36.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 776 B

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 663 B

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 776 B or 54% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 36.0 kB
  • After minification 23.8 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 30.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Plygem. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

plygem.ca

plygem.ca

86 ms

count.js

count.js

246 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

41 ms

eznet.gif

eznet.gif

78 ms

ctin.php

ctin.php

189 ms

Accessibility Review

plygem.ca accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

plygem.ca best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

plygem.ca SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Plygem.ca 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 Plygem.ca 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

plygem.ca

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