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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

gshields.com

Industrial Supply Products | Supplier Since 1953 | Greenshields

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

142 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

201 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gshields.com page load time and found that the first response time was 142 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gshields.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,050 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.429

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gshields.com

142 ms

gshields.com

65 ms

www.gshields.com

380 ms

theme-bundle.head_async.js

62 ms

jquery-3.6.0.js

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Gshields.com, 68% (27 requests) were made to Cdn11.bigcommerce.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (406 ms) relates to the external source Cdn11.bigcommerce.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 178.1 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

864.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Gshields.com main page is 1.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 822.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 178.0 kB

  • Original 219.2 kB
  • After minification 185.1 kB
  • After compression 41.3 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 34.1 kB, which is 16% 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 178.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 13 B

  • Original 822.1 kB
  • After minification 822.1 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. Gshields images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 112 B

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.5 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (21%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gshields. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gshields.com accessibility score

78

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

gshields.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

gshields.com SEO score

82

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 doesn't use 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 Gshields.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 Gshields.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 Gshields. 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: