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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

stvrainblock.com

Concrete Block | Paving Stone | Retaining Wall Block | Structural Block

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

305 ms

Resources Loaded

808 ms

Page Rendered

149 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stvrainblock.com page load time and found that the first response time was 305 ms and then it took 957 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stvrainblock.com performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stvrainblock.com

305 ms

format.css

149 ms

menu.css

145 ms

text.css

154 ms

event_handlers.js

204 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Stvrainblock.com, 11% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (305 ms) belongs to the original domain Stvrainblock.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.3 kB (50%)

Content Size

145.4 kB

After Optimization

73.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stvrainblock.com main page is 145.4 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. Javascripts take 64.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 24.3 kB
  • After minification 19.2 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 5.2 kB, which is 21% 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 18.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 40.6 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. Stvrain Block images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 40.3 kB

  • Original 64.5 kB
  • After minification 60.9 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 40.3 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 14.6 kB
  • After minification 8.3 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. Stvrainblock.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (12%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stvrain Block. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

stvrainblock.com

stvrainblock.com

305 ms

format.css

format.css

149 ms

menu.css

menu.css

145 ms

text.css

text.css

154 ms

event_handlers.js

event_handlers.js

204 ms

css

css

17 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

7 ms

search.png

search.png

47 ms

phone.png

phone.png

53 ms

svbc_logo.gif

svbc_logo.gif

53 ms

round_planter_feature.jpg

round_planter_feature.jpg

64 ms

blue_pixelbar400_anim.gif

blue_pixelbar400_anim.gif

53 ms

arrow_anim.gif

arrow_anim.gif

89 ms

astm_logo_home.jpg

astm_logo_home.jpg

100 ms

csa_logo_home.jpg

csa_logo_home.jpg

104 ms

rmi_logo_home.jpg

rmi_logo_home.jpg

108 ms

pdf_acrobat5.gif

pdf_acrobat5.gif

102 ms

pinterest.png

pinterest.png

109 ms

facebook_sm.png

facebook_sm.png

132 ms

google_plus_sm.png

google_plus_sm.png

144 ms

linkedin_sm.png

linkedin_sm.png

161 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

38 ms

gNMKW3FiRpKj-hmf-HM.ttf

gNMKW3FiRpKj-hmf-HM.ttf

8 ms

collect

collect

25 ms

collect

collect

34 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

259 ms

format_mobile.css

format_mobile.css

46 ms

arrow_over.gif

arrow_over.gif

45 ms

Accessibility Review

stvrainblock.com accessibility score

81

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

stvrainblock.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

stvrainblock.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

stvrainblock.com

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