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Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

groomhour.com

Grooming Doesn't Have To Be Daunting - GroomHour

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

160 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

405 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Groomhour.com page load time and found that the first response time was 160 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

groomhour.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

groomhour.com

160 ms

groomhour.com

386 ms

style.min.css

124 ms

css

28 ms

menu-animation.min.css

185 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Groomhour.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (614 ms) belongs to the original domain Groomhour.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 202.9 kB (22%)

Content Size

907.7 kB

After Optimization

704.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Groomhour.com main page is 907.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 674.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 149.2 kB

  • Original 174.4 kB
  • After minification 172.9 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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. 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 149.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 44.9 kB

  • Original 674.4 kB
  • After minification 629.5 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. Groom Hour images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 479 B

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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

-24%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 34.3 kB
  • After minification 33.6 kB
  • After compression 26.0 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. Groomhour.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.4 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (24%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Groom Hour. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

groomhour.com accessibility score

94

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

groomhour.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

groomhour.com SEO score

97

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 Groomhour.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 Groomhour.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 Groom Hour. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: