Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

cardsurge.com

Trade Gift Cards for Bitcoin | Gift Card Exchange | Card Surge

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

96 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cardsurge.com page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cardsurge.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.478

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cardsurge.com

44 ms

www.cardsurge.com

2912 ms

font-awesome.min.css

53 ms

calendar.css

61 ms

styles-m.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 288 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (281 requests) were addressed to the original Cardsurge.com, 1% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Cardsurge.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 281.6 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Cardsurge.com main page is 1.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 767.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 91.8 kB

  • Original 106.8 kB
  • After minification 103.3 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 91.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 410.7 kB
  • After minification 402.6 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. Cards Urge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 177.0 kB

  • Original 767.8 kB
  • After minification 761.6 kB
  • After compression 590.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 177.0 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 157.3 kB
  • After minification 156.9 kB
  • After compression 152.6 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. Cardsurge.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 257 (92%)

Requests Now

280

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 280 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cards Urge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 235 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cardsurge.com accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cardsurge.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cardsurge.com SEO score

93

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cardsurge.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 Cardsurge.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 description is not detected on the main page of Cards Urge. 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: