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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

gearexpress.com

Rock Climbing & Mountain Gear & Equipment - Gear Express

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

213 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

548 ms

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About Website

Visit gearexpress.com now to see the best up-to-date Gear Express content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about gearexpress.com

The deepest selection of climbing gear on the planet. Free shipping over $50! Ropes, harnesses, shoes, carabiners, cams, stoppers, ice tools, avalanche beacons, and more. Buy now!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gearexpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 213 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

gearexpress.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gearexpress.com

213 ms

264278f1432258fbb5a68ab09a09205c-1-1394432757.css

326 ms

b5c4998a9a785e9e839db2f96c835bc2-1377675562.js

323 ms

fc59f3e0b5529c53eb618136c6993fd5-1393726121.js

372 ms

144dbe1196b462c860f6324cfb4651be-1391751890.js

151 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Gearexpress.com, 6% (4 requests) were made to D37phj1nwbd0r1.cloudfront.net and 5% (3 requests) were made to Cartrocket.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Gearexpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (28%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gearexpress.com main page is 4.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 58.4 kB
  • After minification 54.9 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 48.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 104.3 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Gear Express images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 641.9 kB

  • Original 950.8 kB
  • After minification 939.6 kB
  • After compression 308.9 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 641.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 557.7 kB

  • Original 633.3 kB
  • After minification 627.6 kB
  • After compression 75.6 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. Gearexpress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 557.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (30%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gear Express. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.gearexpress.com

www.gearexpress.com

213 ms

264278f1432258fbb5a68ab09a09205c-1-1394432757.css

264278f1432258fbb5a68ab09a09205c-1-1394432757.css

326 ms

b5c4998a9a785e9e839db2f96c835bc2-1377675562.js

b5c4998a9a785e9e839db2f96c835bc2-1377675562.js

323 ms

fc59f3e0b5529c53eb618136c6993fd5-1393726121.js

fc59f3e0b5529c53eb618136c6993fd5-1393726121.js

372 ms

144dbe1196b462c860f6324cfb4651be-1391751890.js

144dbe1196b462c860f6324cfb4651be-1391751890.js

151 ms

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b3b6aea8-2109-41b7-b60f-14c0db2dddf4.css

59 ms

parallax.css

parallax.css

154 ms

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168 ms

crt.min.js

crt.min.js

20 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

16 ms

widget.js

widget.js

274 ms

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236 ms

logo.png

logo.png

208 ms

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332 ms

whats-a-blem_10.png

whats-a-blem_10.png

515 ms

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756 ms

black_diamond.png

black_diamond.png

432 ms

petzl.png

petzl.png

508 ms

la_sportiva.png

la_sportiva.png

510 ms

dmm.png

dmm.png

603 ms

edelweiss.png

edelweiss.png

685 ms

camp.png

camp.png

729 ms

metolius.png

metolius.png

747 ms

sterling.png

sterling.png

756 ms

wild_country.png

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880 ms

grivel.png

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893 ms

beal.png

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939 ms

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986 ms

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507 ms

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395 ms

black_diamond.png

black_diamond.png

203 ms

petzl.png

petzl.png

234 ms

la_sportiva.png

la_sportiva.png

340 ms

dmm.png

dmm.png

342 ms

edelweiss.png

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392 ms

camp.png

camp.png

392 ms

metolius.png

metolius.png

477 ms

sterling.png

sterling.png

501 ms

wild_country.png

wild_country.png

556 ms

ga.js

ga.js

39 ms

bkg_header.png

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587 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

789 ms

banner1.jpg

banner1.jpg

883 ms

banner3.jpg

banner3.jpg

1086 ms

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1396 ms

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1808 ms

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1598 ms

bkg_footer.jpg

bkg_footer.jpg

1323 ms

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152 ms

62 ms

btn_newsletter.png

btn_newsletter.png

861 ms

bkg_input.gif

bkg_input.gif

1060 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

30 ms

jquery-1.10.2.js

jquery-1.10.2.js

13 ms

b7bfefc0-1cf5-4dd2-b569-35201c59fffc.js

b7bfefc0-1cf5-4dd2-b569-35201c59fffc.js

53 ms

widget.css

widget.css

61 ms

28 ms

css

css

29 ms

WRf4.js

WRf4.js

4 ms

crt.css

crt.css

32 ms

crtjquery.js

crtjquery.js

54 ms

i

i

19 ms

169 ms

easyXDM.min.js

easyXDM.min.js

158 ms

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184 ms

roundtrip.js

roundtrip.js

6 ms

Accessibility Review

gearexpress.com accessibility score

77

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

gearexpress.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gearexpress.com SEO score

91

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

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 Gearexpress.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 Gearexpress.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

gearexpress.com

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