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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

characterskateboards.com

Character Skateboards | Chicago's Longest Standing Skateboarding Brand

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

593 ms

About Website

Welcome to characterskateboards.com homepage info - get ready to check Character Skateboards best content right away, or after learning these important things about characterskateboards.com

For over 11 years Character Skateboards has been Chicago's longest standing skateboard brand, available at nearly every skateshop in the Chicagoland & Midwest area, 

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Key Findings

We analyzed Characterskateboards.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 6.7 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

characterskateboards.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.093

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

characterskateboards.com

1006 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

227 ms

jquery-ui.theme.min.css

226 ms

minimalist.css

8 ms

gsc.css

228 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Characterskateboards.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Characterskateboards.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.2 MB (42%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Characterskateboards.com main page is 7.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 74.2 kB

  • Original 91.2 kB
  • After minification 88.3 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 74.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 2.9 MB

  • Original 6.9 MB
  • After minification 3.9 MB

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. Obviously, Character Skateboards needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.9 MB or 43% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 118.6 kB

  • Original 559.9 kB
  • After minification 559.9 kB
  • After compression 441.3 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 118.6 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 101.9 kB

  • Original 284.6 kB
  • After minification 284.5 kB
  • After compression 182.7 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. Characterskateboards.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 101.9 kB or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (65%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Character Skateboards. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

characterskateboards.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

characterskateboards.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

characterskateboards.com SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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