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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

scoutstuff.org

Official BSA® Scout Shop - Online Store for All Your Scouting Needs | Scouting America®

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

154 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

474 ms

About Website

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Official online store for Scouting America® - offering outdoor gear, Scout uniforms, camping supplies and Scouting expertise. Support BSA® with every purchase!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scoutstuff.org page load time and found that the first response time was 154 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scoutstuff.org performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,440 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scoutstuff.org

154 ms

www.scoutshop.org

71 ms

styles-m.min.css

77 ms

styles-l.min.css

192 ms

css

187 ms

Our browser made a total of 235 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Scoutstuff.org, 71% (166 requests) were made to Scoutshop.org and 6% (13 requests) were made to Staticw2.yotpo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Scoutshop.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 557.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scoutstuff.org main page is 3.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 374.7 kB

  • Original 443.4 kB
  • After minification 407.8 kB
  • After compression 68.7 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 374.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 24.6 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Scout Stuff images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 62.8 kB

  • Original 592.4 kB
  • After minification 592.4 kB
  • After compression 529.6 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 62.8 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 95.0 kB

  • Original 579.6 kB
  • After minification 579.6 kB
  • After compression 484.7 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. Scoutstuff.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 95.0 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 189 (84%)

Requests Now

225

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 225 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scout Stuff. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 160 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

scoutstuff.org accessibility score

83

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

High

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

scoutstuff.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

scoutstuff.org SEO score

91

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

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 Scoutstuff.org 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 Scoutstuff.org 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 Scout Stuff. 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: