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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

ipscalex.com

Competitive Shooting Firearms and Training | IPSC Alex

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

291 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing IPSC Alex content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ipscalex.com

IPSC Alex is a top competitive shooting supplier and trainer in Canada. Offering custom firearms and gear as well as top rated training.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ipscalex.com page load time and found that the first response time was 61 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ipscalex.com performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.035

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ipscalex.com

61 ms

ipscalex.com

573 ms

theme-bundle.head_async.js

66 ms

css

63 ms

theme-6666e230-411e-0138-5179-0242ac11000f.css

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Ipscalex.com, 79% (44 requests) were made to Cdn11.bigcommerce.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Cdn11.bigcommerce.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 374.4 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ipscalex.com main page is 2.2 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 347.2 kB

  • Original 399.1 kB
  • After minification 362.8 kB
  • After compression 51.9 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 347.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 27.1 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. IPSC Alex images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 114 B

  • Original 69.4 kB
  • After minification 69.4 kB
  • After compression 69.3 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 11.6 kB
  • After minification 11.6 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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. Ipscalex.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (16%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IPSC Alex. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ipscalex.com

ipscalex.com

61 ms

ipscalex.com

ipscalex.com

573 ms

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66 ms

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63 ms

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79 ms

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69 ms

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53 ms

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204 ms

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56 ms

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148 ms

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60 ms

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142 ms

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45 ms

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45 ms

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115 ms

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282 ms

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282 ms

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315 ms

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114 ms

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282 ms

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283 ms

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502 ms

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314 ms

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536 ms

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538 ms

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500 ms

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696 ms

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778 ms

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709 ms

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502 ms

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675 ms

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727 ms

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956 ms

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956 ms

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903 ms

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17 ms

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33 ms

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473 ms

Accessibility Review

ipscalex.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

ipscalex.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ipscalex.com SEO score

89

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 Ipscalex.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 Ipscalex.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

ipscalex.com

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