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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

thesaleroom.com

the-saleroom | Live online auctions site | Collectables & Antiques

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

157 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

801 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesaleroom.com page load time and found that the first response time was 157 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thesaleroom.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value19.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value40.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value51.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,330 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.107

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value74.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesaleroom.com

157 ms

thesaleroom.com

288 ms

www.the-saleroom.com

331 ms

73 ms

en-gb

138 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Thesaleroom.com, 27% (17 requests) were made to D10aaldnfoji0c.cloudfront.net and 26% (16 requests) were made to Portal-images.azureedge.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (738 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.clerk.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 128.7 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thesaleroom.com main page is 2.2 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. 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 125.6 kB

  • Original 144.9 kB
  • After minification 114.7 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 30.2 kB, which is 21% 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 125.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. The Saleroom images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 221.9 kB
  • After minification 221.9 kB
  • After compression 219.0 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 141 B

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Thesaleroom.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (63%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Saleroom. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thesaleroom.com accessibility score

89

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 input fields do not have accessible names

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

thesaleroom.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thesaleroom.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 Thesaleroom.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 Thesaleroom.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 The Saleroom. 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: