Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

gearforears.com

Protective Covers, Sleeves & Clips for Hearing Aids & Implants

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

984 ms

gearforears.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gearforears.com page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gearforears.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,370 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.194

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gearforears.com

170 ms

www.gearforears.com

172 ms

bulma.min.css

203 ms

css

183 ms

d6940f7b1d5ca1c2a7069df79cb47c44b34c89db.css

193 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Gearforears.com, 12% (9 requests) were made to Datocms-assets.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to D33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Gearforears.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 222.1 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Gearforears.com main page is 1.5 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 214.2 kB

  • Original 240.7 kB
  • After minification 238.2 kB
  • After compression 26.5 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. 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 214.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Gearforears images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 171 B

  • Original 85.6 kB
  • After minification 85.6 kB
  • After compression 85.5 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (62%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gearforears. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gearforears.com accessibility score

87

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

gearforears.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gearforears.com SEO score

93

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

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 Gearforears.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 Gearforears.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 data is detected on the main page of Gearforears. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: