Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

xceptional.com

Xceptional: Managed IT Services & IT consulting | San Diego & Denver

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

188 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

926 ms

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Xceptional specializes in managed IT providing IT consulting, data center, unified communications, and Network & WiFi. Explore how we can help.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Xceptional.com page load time and found that the first response time was 188 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

xceptional.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

54/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value25,340 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

xceptional.com

188 ms

www.xceptional.com

352 ms

main.min.css

170 ms

theme-overrides.min.css

160 ms

css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Xceptional.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (792 ms) belongs to the original domain Xceptional.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 200.4 kB (31%)

Content Size

656.0 kB

After Optimization

455.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Xceptional.com main page is 656.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 341.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 184.5 kB

  • Original 221.8 kB
  • After minification 214.3 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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 184.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 341.3 kB
  • After minification 336.1 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. Xceptional images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 205 B

  • Original 48.3 kB
  • After minification 48.3 kB
  • After compression 48.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 44.6 kB
  • After minification 44.6 kB
  • After compression 34.2 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. Xceptional.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.5 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (42%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Xceptional. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

xceptional.com accessibility score

95

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

xceptional.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

xceptional.com SEO score

100

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 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 Xceptional.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 Xceptional.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 Xceptional. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: