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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

watch.mecum.com

Mecum Auctions | The World's Largest Collector Car Auctions

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

18 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Watch.mecum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 18 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

watch.mecum.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,080 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.143

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

watch.mecum.com

18 ms

www.mecum.com

62 ms

mecum.min.css

47 ms

picturefill.min.js

211 ms

mecum.min.js

150 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Watch.mecum.com, 36% (20 requests) were made to Cdn3.mecum.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 147.3 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Watch.mecum.com main page is 1.2 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. 75% 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 807.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 145.7 kB

  • Original 189.5 kB
  • After minification 186.6 kB
  • After compression 43.8 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 145.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 206 B

  • Original 807.5 kB
  • After minification 807.3 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. Watch Mecum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 123.0 kB
  • After minification 123.0 kB
  • After compression 122.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 370 B

  • Original 75.9 kB
  • After minification 75.9 kB
  • After compression 75.5 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. Watch.mecum.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (67%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Watch Mecum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

watch.mecum.com accessibility score

88

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

watch.mecum.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

watch.mecum.com SEO score

99

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 Watch.mecum.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 Watch.mecum.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 Watch Mecum. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: