Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

grohe.ca

Kitchen and Bathroom Faucets, Sinks, Tubs, Showers, and Accessories

Page Load Speed

18.7 sec in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

11.6 sec

grohe.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit grohe.ca now to see the best up-to-date Grohe content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about grohe.ca

Find kitchen and bathroom fixtures and fittings for a modern or contemporary look. View our exciting collections of faucets, sinks, tubs, showers, and accessories that fit your lifestyle.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Grohe.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 18.7 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

grohe.ca performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,590 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.195

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

grohe.ca

10 ms

www.grohe.ca

401 ms

grohe-head-optimized-min.css

42 ms

grohe-head-optimized-min.js

150 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Grohe.ca, 44% (24 requests) were made to Do5nkkzntcenb.cloudfront.net and 19% (10 requests) were made to D3fk6rzgmc6ii4.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.4 sec) relates to the external source Lixil.cdn.celum.cloud.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 232.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Grohe.ca main page is 3.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 164.1 kB

  • Original 207.7 kB
  • After minification 173.9 kB
  • After compression 43.6 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 33.7 kB, which is 16% 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 164.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 66.5 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Grohe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 950.8 kB
  • After minification 950.8 kB
  • After compression 949.4 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.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 343.3 kB
  • After minification 343.3 kB
  • After compression 343.3 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. Grohe.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (21%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grohe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

grohe.ca accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

grohe.ca 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

grohe.ca SEO score

92

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Grohe.ca 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 Grohe.ca main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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