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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

chiverssports.co.uk

Chivers Sports 1945 - Running Shoes - Swimwear - Injury Recovery - Nutrition

Page Load Speed

13.7 sec in total

First Response

573 ms

Resources Loaded

12.9 sec

Page Rendered

158 ms

About Website

Visit chiverssports.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Chivers Sports content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about chiverssports.co.uk

Chivers Sports is an independent sports store established 1945 in Carlisle, England. As a running shoe specialist we use Gait Analysis and Footdisc to determine the perfect running shoe for every cust...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chiverssports.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 573 ms and then it took 13.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chiverssports.co.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.347

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.chiverssports.co.uk

573 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

158 ms

styles.css

244 ms

widgets.css

249 ms

style.css

255 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (93 requests) were addressed to the original Chiverssports.co.uk, 5% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Chiverssports.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 331.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

9.4 MB

After Optimization

9.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chiverssports.co.uk main page is 9.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 61.6 kB

  • Original 73.8 kB
  • After minification 65.2 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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 8.6 kB, which is 12% 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 61.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 190.6 kB

  • Original 8.9 MB
  • After minification 8.7 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. Chivers Sports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 61.7 kB

  • Original 295.6 kB
  • After minification 294.7 kB
  • After compression 233.9 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 61.7 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 17.2 kB

  • Original 77.1 kB
  • After minification 76.2 kB
  • After compression 59.9 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. Chiverssports.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.2 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (63%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

37

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chivers Sports. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

chiverssports.co.uk accessibility score

64

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

chiverssports.co.uk 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

chiverssports.co.uk SEO score

74

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Chiverssports.co.uk 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 Chiverssports.co.uk 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 Chivers Sports. 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: