Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

armystores.biz

armystores.biz

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

346 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

257 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Armystores.biz page load time and found that the first response time was 346 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Armystores.biz rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

armystores.biz performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

76/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.219

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.1 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

armystores.biz

346 ms

www.armystores.co.za

1288 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

100 ms

frontend.css

194 ms

styles.css

200 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Armystores.biz, 61% (54 requests) were made to Armystores.co.za and 3% (3 requests) were made to Reports.calltracking.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Armystores.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 568.5 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

651.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Armystores.biz main page is 1.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 499.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 47.9 kB

  • Original 61.4 kB
  • After minification 59.8 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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. 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 47.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 42.9 kB

  • Original 499.4 kB
  • After minification 456.5 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. Armystores images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 206.1 kB

  • Original 338.5 kB
  • After minification 326.9 kB
  • After compression 132.4 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 206.1 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 271.5 kB

  • Original 321.0 kB
  • After minification 278.4 kB
  • After compression 49.5 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. Armystores.biz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 271.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (62%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Armystores. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

armystores.biz accessibility score

86

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

armystores.biz 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

SEO Factors

armystores.biz SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Armystores.biz can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Armystores.biz 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 Armystores. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: