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solarbuddy.com

Solar Savings Calculator and Cost Estimator - SolarBuddy

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

161 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

270 ms

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About Website

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

SolarBuddy solar savings calculator provides quick estimate of solar panel cost, tax rebates, financing options and total savings.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Solarbuddy.com page load time and found that the first response time was 161 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

solarbuddy.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

solarbuddy.com

161 ms

www.solarbuddy.com

477 ms

slider.js

137 ms

solar.js

140 ms

jquery.js

688 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Solarbuddy.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) belongs to the original domain Solarbuddy.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 373.4 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Solarbuddy.com main page is 3.1 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 66.0 kB

  • Original 79.1 kB
  • After minification 58.8 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 20.3 kB, which is 26% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 66.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB

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. Solar Buddy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 197.9 kB

  • Original 284.8 kB
  • After minification 225.9 kB
  • After compression 87.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 197.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 92.2 kB

  • Original 109.0 kB
  • After minification 91.0 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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. Solarbuddy.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 92.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (29%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solar Buddy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

solarbuddy.com

solarbuddy.com

161 ms

www.solarbuddy.com

www.solarbuddy.com

477 ms

slider.js

slider.js

137 ms

solar.js

solar.js

140 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

688 ms

jd.gallery.js

jd.gallery.js

413 ms

jd.gallery.transitions.js

jd.gallery.transitions.js

474 ms

s5_flex_menu.js

s5_flex_menu.js

476 ms

s5_flex_menu.css

s5_flex_menu.css

718 ms

styles.css

styles.css

587 ms

template_default.css

template_default.css

482 ms

template.css

template.css

885 ms

editor.css

editor.css

543 ms

slider.css

slider.css

550 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

6 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

759 ms

cancel.png

cancel.png

69 ms

solar_buddy.jpg

solar_buddy.jpg

137 ms

logo.png

logo.png

207 ms

fb.png

fb.png

71 ms

google.png

google.png

456 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

137 ms

pinterest.png

pinterest.png

140 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

205 ms

searchButton.gif

searchButton.gif

206 ms

slider6.jpg

slider6.jpg

1617 ms

slider7.jpg

slider7.jpg

1497 ms

solar3.jpg

solar3.jpg

2179 ms

solar4.jpg

solar4.jpg

1579 ms

solar1.jpg

solar1.jpg

2583 ms

solar2.jpg

solar2.jpg

2266 ms

slider5.jpg

slider5.jpg

2448 ms

solar_works.jpg

solar_works.jpg

2029 ms

solar_lady.jpg

solar_lady.jpg

2091 ms

John_M_solar-testimonial.jpg

John_M_solar-testimonial.jpg

2304 ms

solar_demo.jpg

solar_demo.jpg

2404 ms

s5_bar_pattern.png

s5_bar_pattern.png

2367 ms

ribbon.png

ribbon.png

2318 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

2356 ms

going_solar1.jpg

going_solar1.jpg

3967 ms

quote_cal.png

quote_cal.png

2425 ms

s5_top_tear.png

s5_top_tear.png

2423 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

5 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

70 ms

SEO Factors

solarbuddy.com SEO score

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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 Solarbuddy.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 Solarbuddy.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

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