Ways to improve website performance
Once the document (website's main page) has been downloaded, we
analyze it. It allows us to give webmasters some recommendations on how
to optimize page load speed. We analyze the internal and external
factors.
Enable GZIP Compression
This is a good practice to give the user content in compressed form.
We've detected 15.85 Kb of content that could be compressed.
By compressing content you can achieve the size of ~ 3.96 Kb
(saving 11.89 Kb). This would accelerate the page loading speed and would positively
impact the bandwidth savings in Carolina Internet.
http://www.brookbend.com/. File size 11.73 Kb and you can save up to 8.8 Kb
http://www.brookbend.com/brookbendstyle.css. File size 4 Kb and you can save up to 3 Kb
http://www.brookbend.com/indexstyle.css. File size 0.12 Kb and you can save up to 0.09 Kb
Keep Components under 25K
Users often visit web site using a mobile phone. Even the most modern and advanced gadgets
have some limitations. For example an iPhone browser do not cache page components bigger
than 25K. So you should strive to ensure that scripts, CSS-styles, etc.
are less than 25K.
http://www.brookbend.com/images/index_02.jpg Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 37.6 Kb.
http://www.brookbend.com/images/index_08.jpg Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 32.79 Kb.
http://www.brookbend.com/images/index_06.jpg Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 43.89 Kb.
http://www.brookbend.com/images/index_07.jpg Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 25.49 Kb.
Alternate text for the images.
As you may already know, search engine that indexes your pages, do not
have eyes. And all content you are trying to display on your site is
just HTML & CSS code, images, Flash, etc for the robots. It is It's
extremely important to describe each of the objects more datailed using
ALT, TITLE and other tags.
Our robot has determined that the brookbend.com page has
3
images, which has no tag ALT. Tag ALT is a text field, that specifies an
alternate text for an image. But not only. Search engines consider this
tag as a supplemental result for assessing the content of your page
entirely. Do not ignore it!
For example your page has this code:
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<img src="images/enter4.jpg" name="enter4" border="0" height="34" width="189" id="enter4"> |
We recommend you use rich img code in that place:
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<img src="images/enter4.jpg" name="enter4" border="0" height="34" width="189" id="enter4" alt="teak furniture"> |
P.S. We used keyword for this image that seemed to us most important for your page.
But you can go ahead and give to each of 3 images an ALT text. This problem requires
responsible approach. No need to put the same text at alt tag of the all images.
Imagine that the pictures do not show and try to make sure that users understand what
is shown on the picture based on the alt tag
Using H1 tag
Show main content of the page clearly. One of the most important
internal website ranking factors is the H1 tag. It's a title of the
document and the most powerful keyword, actually.
Our robot did not
find the h1 tag on the page.
Use the TITLE for A tag
As we have already mentioned, search engine bots can not see the site
like a people do it. They more focused on the descriptions of certain
page elements. That's why we strongly recommend use TITLE operator in
the "A" tag. This operator not only describes the page referenced by
the page more detailed, but also takes part in the page describing.
For example, you have the link on your website:
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<a href="http://www.brookbend.com/inside3.asp" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('enter4','','images/enter4-ro.jpg',1)"><img src="images/enter4.jpg" name="enter4" alt="" border="0"
height="34" width="189" id="enter4"></a> |
We suggest you to remake it in this way:
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<a href="http://www.brookbend.com/inside3.asp" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('enter4','','images/enter4-ro.jpg',1)" title="storage boxes"><img src="images/enter4.jpg" name="enter4" alt="" border="0"
height="34" width="189" id="enter4"></a> |
Of course, you can (and should) use more proper phrase instead of the "storage boxes" that describes the link
http://www.brookbend.com/inside3.asp.