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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

blue-gauntlet.com

Welcome to Blue Gauntlet - Advance Performance By Design

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

166 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blue-gauntlet.com page load time and found that the first response time was 199 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blue-gauntlet.com performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.152

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

62/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.blue-gauntlet.com

199 ms

modernizr.min.js

56 ms

utilities.js

42 ms

quicksearch.css

40 ms

layout.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Blue-gauntlet.com, 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (918 ms) relates to the external source Blue-gauntlet.3dcartstores.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 44.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

467.2 kB

After Optimization

422.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blue-gauntlet.com main page is 467.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 274.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 39.7 kB

  • Original 49.3 kB
  • After minification 49.2 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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 39.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 274.2 kB
  • After minification 274.2 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. Blue Gauntlet images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 106.7 kB
  • After minification 106.7 kB
  • After compression 103.9 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 37.0 kB
  • After minification 35.0 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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. Blue-gauntlet.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (52%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blue Gauntlet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.blue-gauntlet.com

www.blue-gauntlet.com

199 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

56 ms

utilities.js

utilities.js

42 ms

quicksearch.css

quicksearch.css

40 ms

layout.css

layout.css

46 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

52 ms

default_modified.css

default_modified.css

54 ms

css

css

34 ms

css

css

50 ms

fontello.css

fontello.css

90 ms

twlh.asp

twlh.asp

918 ms

quick_view.css

quick_view.css

91 ms

quick_view.js

quick_view.js

89 ms

jquery.simplemodal.min.js

jquery.simplemodal.min.js

91 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

126 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

90 ms

jquery.quicksearch.js

jquery.quicksearch.js

103 ms

functions.js

functions.js

105 ms

css

css

20 ms

css

css

23 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

46 ms

bglogo22.jpg

bglogo22.jpg

91 ms

test3.jpg

test3.jpg

188 ms

test4.jpg

test4.jpg

92 ms

slide3.jpg

slide3.jpg

90 ms

MCSABRE2.jpg

MCSABRE2.jpg

90 ms

slide2.jpg

slide2.jpg

88 ms

pbtslide4.jpg

pbtslide4.jpg

90 ms

test7.jpg

test7.jpg

88 ms

test8.jpg

test8.jpg

71 ms

350knickers2_thumbnail.jpg

350knickers2_thumbnail.jpg

88 ms

star4.png

star4.png

181 ms

foil%201_thumbnail.jpg

foil%201_thumbnail.jpg

184 ms

star5.png

star5.png

182 ms

silky%20sabre%20lame_thumbnail.jpg

silky%20sabre%20lame_thumbnail.jpg

182 ms

star0.png

star0.png

183 ms

warning.jpg

warning.jpg

183 ms

paypal.png

paypal.png

347 ms

visa.png

visa.png

185 ms

master-card.png

master-card.png

186 ms

discover.png

discover.png

186 ms

offline.gif

offline.gif

85 ms

test5.jpg

test5.jpg

87 ms

test6.jpg

test6.jpg

67 ms

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102 ms

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168 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

100 ms

ga.js

ga.js

115 ms

fontello.woff

fontello.woff

116 ms

dailydeal_widget.asp

dailydeal_widget.asp

237 ms

collect

collect

43 ms

collect

collect

64 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

25 ms

js

js

101 ms

count.asp

count.asp

107 ms

3dvisit.asp

3dvisit.asp

104 ms

clock-icon.png

clock-icon.png

42 ms

flexslider-icon.woff

flexslider-icon.woff

62 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

23 ms

Accessibility Review

blue-gauntlet.com accessibility score

53

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

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

blue-gauntlet.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

blue-gauntlet.com SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blue-gauntlet.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Blue-gauntlet.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blue Gauntlet. 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: