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Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

garston.com

Screen Printing Supplies, Digital & Sign Printing Supplies

Page Load Speed

918 ms in total

First Response

115 ms

Resources Loaded

745 ms

Page Rendered

58 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Garston.com page load time and found that the first response time was 115 ms and then it took 803 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

garston.com performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,300 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.631

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

garston.com

115 ms

www.grimco.com

250 ms

wem3uog.css

37 ms

OneSignalSDK.js

57 ms

5541471.js

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Garston.com, 24% (5 requests) were made to Grimco.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Js.hubspot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (371 ms) relates to the external source Grimco.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 137.9 kB (69%)

Content Size

198.8 kB

After Optimization

61.0 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Garston.com main page is 198.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 150.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 131.1 kB

  • Original 150.3 kB
  • After minification 149.4 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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. 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 131.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 48.5 kB
  • After minification 48.5 kB
  • After compression 41.8 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 6.7 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (79%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

4

  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Garston. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

garston.com

garston.com

115 ms

www.grimco.com

www.grimco.com

250 ms

wem3uog.css

wem3uog.css

37 ms

OneSignalSDK.js

OneSignalSDK.js

57 ms

5541471.js

5541471.js

46 ms

bv.js

bv.js

32 ms

app

app

45 ms

core

core

170 ms

vendors

vendors

371 ms

app

app

328 ms

p.css

p.css

22 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

151 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

74 ms

hotjar-2778744.js

hotjar-2778744.js

152 ms

fb.js

fb.js

107 ms

5541471.js

5541471.js

139 ms

collectedforms.js

collectedforms.js

103 ms

5541471.js

5541471.js

140 ms

leadflows.js

leadflows.js

107 ms

web-interactives-embed.js

web-interactives-embed.js

102 ms

conversations-embed.js

conversations-embed.js

101 ms

Accessibility Review

garston.com accessibility score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

garston.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

garston.com SEO score

91

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 Garston.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 Garston.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

garston.com

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