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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

microcenter.com

Micro Center - Computer & Electronics Retailer - Shop Now

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

118 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

2.7 sec

About Website

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Shop Micro Center for electronics, PCs, laptops, Apple products, and much more. Enjoy in-store pickup, top deals, and expert same-day tech support.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Microcenter.com page load time and found that the first response time was 118 ms and then it took 7.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

microcenter.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,720 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.088

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

microcenter.com

118 ms

www.microcenter.com

868 ms

DesktopCsscompiledProduct2022

280 ms

DesktopJScompiled

196 ms

bv.js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 183 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Microcenter.com, 32% (58 requests) were made to 60a99bedadae98078522-a9b6cded92292ef3bace063619038eb1.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com and 28% (51 requests) were made to 90a1c75758623581b3f8-5c119c3de181c9857fcb2784776b17ef.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) relates to the external source 60a99bedadae98078522-a9b6cded92292ef3bace063619038eb1.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (27%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Microcenter.com main page is 4.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 516.4 kB

  • Original 581.5 kB
  • After minification 523.7 kB
  • After compression 65.1 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 516.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 40.2 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Micro Center images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 548.3 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 495.5 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 548.3 kB or 53% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (35%)

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

97

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Micro Center. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

microcenter.com accessibility score

90

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

Best Practices

microcenter.com best practices score

58

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

microcenter.com SEO score

85

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

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 Microcenter.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 Microcenter.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 Micro Center. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: