Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

gear4.com

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Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

168 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

209 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gear4.com page load time and found that the first response time was 168 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.

Performance Metrics

gear4.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,370 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.105

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gear4.com

168 ms

gear4.com

284 ms

82 ms

642 ms

gb

263 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Gear4.com, 43% (49 requests) were made to Cdn11.bigcommerce.com and 12% (13 requests) were made to Static.prod.middleware.zagg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Cdn11.bigcommerce.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 500.9 kB (23%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Gear4.com main page is 2.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 500.0 kB

  • Original 561.0 kB
  • After minification 489.6 kB
  • After compression 61.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 71.4 kB, which is 13% 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 500.0 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 144 B

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Gear 4 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 723 B

  • Original 71.9 kB
  • After minification 71.8 kB
  • After compression 71.1 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

-28%

Potential reduce by 80 B

  • Original 281 B
  • After minification 280 B
  • After compression 201 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. Gear4.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 80 B or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (43%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

59

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gear 4. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gear4.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

SEO Factors

gear4.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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gear4.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 Gear4.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gear 4. 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: