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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

bostonfirearms.com

Firearm Safety Course & Concealed Carry Classes | LTC Training in Massachusetts | Boston Firearms

Page Load Speed

14.7 sec in total

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

13.4 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bostonfirearms.com page load time and found that the first response time was 61 ms and then it took 14.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bostonfirearms.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bostonfirearms.com

61 ms

bostonfirearms.com

358 ms

full-height.css

58 ms

app.css

137 ms

slick.css

94 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Bostonfirearms.com, 12% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (734 ms) belongs to the original domain Bostonfirearms.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (10%)

Content Size

21.4 MB

After Optimization

19.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bostonfirearms.com main page is 21.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 21.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 51.6 kB

  • Original 60.1 kB
  • After minification 34.6 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 25.5 kB, which is 42% 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 51.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 21.2 MB
  • After minification 19.1 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. Boston Firearms images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 530 B

  • Original 51.3 kB
  • After minification 50.9 kB
  • After compression 50.7 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 58.3 kB
  • After minification 58.3 kB
  • After compression 52.9 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. Bostonfirearms.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (34%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boston Firearms. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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61 ms

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358 ms

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58 ms

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app.css

137 ms

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94 ms

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93 ms

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160 ms

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161 ms

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159 ms

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163 ms

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165 ms

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209 ms

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211 ms

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428 ms

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516 ms

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379 ms

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672 ms

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embed

223 ms

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jquery-3.3.1.min.js

591 ms

mobile-menu.js

mobile-menu.js

630 ms

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jquery.maskedinput.min.js

630 ms

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633 ms

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633 ms

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718 ms

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682 ms

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734 ms

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662 ms

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631 ms

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605 ms

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602 ms

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49 ms

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66 ms

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566 ms

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565 ms

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538 ms

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490 ms

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544 ms

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553 ms

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542 ms

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554 ms

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322 ms

Accessibility Review

bostonfirearms.com accessibility score

73

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.

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

bostonfirearms.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bostonfirearms.com SEO score

89

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bostonfirearms.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 Bostonfirearms.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

bostonfirearms.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Boston Firearms. 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: