Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 46

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

firesense.net

BalkeneHome.com: Versatile Furnishings & Outdoor Heating – Fire Sense/Balkene Home

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

167 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

498 ms

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About Website

Visit firesense.net now to see the best up-to-date Fire Sense content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about firesense.net

Firesense by Balkene Home. FireSense.com: Patio Heaters - Fire Pits - Indoor/Outdoor Furniture - Comfort, Quality and Style Since 1998. We believe in customer satisfaction.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firesense.net page load time and found that the first response time was 167 ms and then it took 3.3 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

firesense.net performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,820 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.179

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shop.firesense.com

167 ms

font-awesome.min.css

23 ms

styles.scss.css

67 ms

VG_global.css

74 ms

font_aller.css

106 ms

Our browser made a total of 156 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Firesense.net, 7% (11 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 5% (8 requests) were made to Productreviews.shopifycdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (794 ms) relates to the external source Lh3.googleusercontent.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (29%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Firesense.net main page is 3.6 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. 85% 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 79.3 kB

  • Original 91.3 kB
  • After minification 71.7 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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 19.6 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 79.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Fire Sense images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 404.6 kB

  • Original 595.5 kB
  • After minification 557.3 kB
  • After compression 190.9 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 404.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 556.2 kB

  • Original 973.8 kB
  • After minification 954.1 kB
  • After compression 417.6 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. Firesense.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 556.2 kB or 57% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (49%)

Requests Now

142

After Optimization

72

The browser has sent 142 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fire Sense. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

firesense.net accessibility score

80

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

firesense.net best practices score

46

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

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

firesense.net SEO score

83

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

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 Firesense.net 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 Firesense.net 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 Fire Sense. 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: