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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

apexflags.com

Flag Store - ApexFlags.com - U.S. Flags, American Flags, Garrison Flag, Battle Ensign, MIL SPEC Flags, State Flags, World Flags, Boise Idaho, USA

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

563 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

566 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apexflags.com page load time and found that the first response time was 563 ms and then it took 5 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

apexflags.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.102

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

AmericanFlagsandFlagpoles.html

563 ms

template-domain-220367.css

359 ms

templateText.css

347 ms

api.js

52 ms

jquery.min.js

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Apexflags.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Apexflags.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 38.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

505.3 kB

After Optimization

467.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apexflags.com main page is 505.3 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. Images take 339.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 29.5 kB
  • After minification 26.2 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 3.3 kB, which is 11% 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 23.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 339.7 kB
  • After minification 330.7 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. Apex Flags images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 135.3 kB
  • After minification 134.7 kB
  • After compression 129.8 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

-64%

Potential reduce by 510 B

  • Original 794 B
  • After minification 716 B
  • After compression 284 B

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. Apexflags.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 510 B or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (33%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apex Flags. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

AmericanFlagsandFlagpoles.html

AmericanFlagsandFlagpoles.html

563 ms

template-domain-220367.css

template-domain-220367.css

359 ms

templateText.css

templateText.css

347 ms

api.js

api.js

52 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

40 ms

extensions.js

extensions.js

431 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

24 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

14 ms

jquery.cm.navigation-min.js

jquery.cm.navigation-min.js

353 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

32 ms

t_header_left.jpg

t_header_left.jpg

1844 ms

s.gif

s.gif

90 ms

vet-owned.jpg

vet-owned.jpg

1448 ms

t_header_left_copy.jpg

t_header_left_copy.jpg

265 ms

tn_G-SPEC_HOME_PAGE.jpg

tn_G-SPEC_HOME_PAGE.jpg

354 ms

tn_U_Military_Flags_1.jpg

tn_U_Military_Flags_1.jpg

352 ms

tn_U_State_Flags_1.jpg

tn_U_State_Flags_1.jpg

356 ms

tn_U_Flagpoles_3.jpg

tn_U_Flagpoles_3.jpg

443 ms

tn_U_World_Flags_2.jpg

tn_U_World_Flags_2.jpg

445 ms

tn_U_Specialty_Flags_2.jpg

tn_U_Specialty_Flags_2.jpg

447 ms

15 ms

statistics.asp

statistics.asp

345 ms

track.js

track.js

378 ms

ga.js

ga.js

23 ms

77 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

18 ms

track-visibility.aspx

track-visibility.aspx

354 ms

push

push

401 ms

Accessibility Review

apexflags.com accessibility score

69

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

apexflags.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

apexflags.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Apexflags.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 Apexflags.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 Apex Flags. 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: