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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

thomasbates.com

Thomas Bates | Belts, Fabric Belts, Leather Belts, Accessories | Online Retailer | Haverhill, MA |

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

327 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thomasbates.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thomasbates.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,560 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.203

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thomasbates.com

1223 ms

3c5b2a0b917f4b20ae34d4cbdbf400c8.css

201 ms

72b95825b0147de29eeecdf1907a874c.js

276 ms

js

57 ms

css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Thomasbates.com, 7% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 7% (3 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Thomasbates.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 551.7 kB (12%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thomasbates.com main page is 4.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 46.3 kB

  • Original 57.5 kB
  • After minification 47.1 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.4 kB, which is 18% 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 46.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 403.1 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Thomas Bates images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 26.8 kB

  • Original 206.6 kB
  • After minification 206.6 kB
  • After compression 179.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 26.8 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-100%

Potential reduce by 75.5 kB

  • Original 75.7 kB
  • After minification 538 B
  • After compression 249 B

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. Thomasbates.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 75.5 kB or 100% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (39%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thomas Bates. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thomasbates.com accessibility score

89

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thomasbates.com best practices score

67

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thomasbates.com SEO score

98

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 Thomasbates.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 Thomasbates.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 Thomas Bates. 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: