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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

irongear.co.uk

IronGear Guitar Pickups - Guitar Pickup Engineering

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

309 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

190 ms

About Website

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Guitar Pickup Engineering from IronGear UK. Since 2007, we have built a reputation based on the highest quality products and exceptional customer feedback.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Irongear.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 309 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

irongear.co.uk performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value950 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

irongear.co.uk

309 ms

irongear_pickups_g.css

107 ms

index_p.css

335 ms

irongear_pickups_g.js

215 ms

index_a.js

213 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Irongear.co.uk, 19% (13 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (973 ms) belongs to the original domain Irongear.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 47.2 kB (18%)

Content Size

257.3 kB

After Optimization

210.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Irongear.co.uk main page is 257.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 179.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 25.5 kB
  • After minification 24.8 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 19.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 179.9 kB
  • After minification 179.9 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. Iron Gear images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 23.2 kB
  • After minification 22.8 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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

-92%

Potential reduce by 26.5 kB

  • Original 28.6 kB
  • After minification 13.3 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Irongear.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.5 kB or 92% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (44%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Iron Gear. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

irongear.co.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

irongear.co.uk best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

irongear.co.uk SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Irongear.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 Irongear.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Iron Gear. 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: