Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

southerncustomshutters.com

Plantation Shutters, Window Shades & Blinds | Southern Custom Shutters | Interior Shutters Made in the USA

Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

49 ms

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southerncustomshutters.com page load time and found that the first response time was 49 ms and then it took 8.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southerncustomshutters.com performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southerncustomshutters.com

49 ms

southerncustomshutters.com

6750 ms

b80c1c62285e26cb22f2738bc130e89d.css

31 ms

menu-addon.css

57 ms

lake-norman-plantation-shutter-installation-2-768x1024.jpg

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Southerncustomshutters.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Formfacade.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Southerncustomshutters.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 875.7 kB (27%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Southerncustomshutters.com main page is 3.2 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 480.8 kB

  • Original 550.7 kB
  • After minification 550.4 kB
  • After compression 69.9 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 480.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 48.8 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Southern Custom Shutters images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 345.8 kB

  • Original 438.3 kB
  • After minification 438.3 kB
  • After compression 92.4 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 345.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 225 B

  • Original 46.6 kB
  • After minification 46.6 kB
  • After compression 46.4 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. Southerncustomshutters.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern Custom Shutters. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

southerncustomshutters.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

southerncustomshutters.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

southerncustomshutters.com SEO score

85

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southerncustomshutters.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 Southerncustomshutters.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 Southern Custom Shutters. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: