Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

costcophotocenter.com

Photo  | Costco

Page Load Speed

47.7 sec in total

First Response

220 ms

Resources Loaded

31.8 sec

Page Rendered

15.8 sec

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About Website

Welcome to costcophotocenter.com homepage info - get ready to check Costco Photo Center best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about costcophotocenter.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Costcophotocenter.com page load time and found that the first response time was 220 ms and then it took 47.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

costcophotocenter.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

Home

220 ms

global

145 ms

medialibrary

765 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

1002 ms

angular.min.js

986 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Costcophotocenter.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.3 sec) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 746.4 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

953.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Costcophotocenter.com main page is 1.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 716.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 113.4 kB

  • Original 140.9 kB
  • After minification 115.9 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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 25.0 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 113.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 36.8 kB

  • Original 716.6 kB
  • After minification 679.9 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. Costco Photo Center images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 463.9 kB

  • Original 685.8 kB
  • After minification 584.7 kB
  • After compression 221.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 463.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 132.2 kB

  • Original 156.5 kB
  • After minification 118.2 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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. Costcophotocenter.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 132.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (52%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Costco Photo Center. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

costcophotocenter.com accessibility score

84

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

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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

costcophotocenter.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

costcophotocenter.com SEO score

76

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Costcophotocenter.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 Costcophotocenter.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 Costco Photo Center. 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: