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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

kcoast.com

Surfboards, Surf and Skate Clothing, Surf Lessons and Rentals - K-Coast Surf Shop

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

89 ms

Resources Loaded

542 ms

Page Rendered

412 ms

kcoast.com screenshot

About Website

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

K-Coast Surf Shop is Ocean City, Maryland's largest surf shop. K-coast sells surfboards, men's and women's surf and skate apparel, shoes, sandals, watches, sunglasses, bodyboards, wetsuits, and skateb...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kcoast.com page load time and found that the first response time was 89 ms and then it took 954 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kcoast.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.694

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kcoast.com

89 ms

gtm.js

32 ms

font-awesome.css

27 ms

css

24 ms

main.css

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Kcoast.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (236 ms) belongs to the original domain Kcoast.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 136.7 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kcoast.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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 16.6 kB
  • After minification 15.4 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 11.5 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. K Coast images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 102.9 kB

  • Original 193.2 kB
  • After minification 188.7 kB
  • After compression 90.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 102.9 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 21.5 kB
  • After minification 21.5 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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. Kcoast.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.8 kB or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (13%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of K Coast. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

kcoast.com

kcoast.com

89 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

32 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

27 ms

css

css

24 ms

main.css

main.css

73 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

8 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

9 ms

custom-ck.js

custom-ck.js

95 ms

mc-validate.js

mc-validate.js

34 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

119 ms

135 ms

logo4.png

logo4.png

33 ms

promo-bg.jpg

promo-bg.jpg

130 ms

angle-bottom.png

angle-bottom.png

39 ms

capecharles.jpg

capecharles.jpg

129 ms

employment.jpg

employment.jpg

81 ms

beater.jpg

beater.jpg

78 ms

odysea.jpg

odysea.jpg

86 ms

newsletter-bg.jpg

newsletter-bg.jpg

69 ms

newsletter-title.png

newsletter-title.png

102 ms

promo-arrow.png

promo-arrow.png

103 ms

AEC08D3F-07CF-2DFA-337F706A7C99F569.jpg

AEC08D3F-07CF-2DFA-337F706A7C99F569.jpg

96 ms

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F35F8E33-EBBB-62F5-8B25247860975336.jpg

99 ms

21B51E78-C99D-C62A-6EBC9B3B901FF737.jpg

21B51E78-C99D-C62A-6EBC9B3B901FF737.jpg

103 ms

7148192C-D8E1-EF4F-943B074C5A11898E.jpg

7148192C-D8E1-EF4F-943B074C5A11898E.jpg

106 ms

solid-arrow.png

solid-arrow.png

129 ms

surf-lessons-04.jpg

surf-lessons-04.jpg

128 ms

surf-lessons-01.jpg

surf-lessons-01.jpg

132 ms

surf-lessons-02.jpg

surf-lessons-02.jpg

136 ms

surf-lessons-03.jpg

surf-lessons-03.jpg

138 ms

introduction-bg.jpg

introduction-bg.jpg

236 ms

angle-top.png

angle-top.png

142 ms

social-facebook.png

social-facebook.png

155 ms

social-twitter.png

social-twitter.png

165 ms

social-instagram.png

social-instagram.png

157 ms

grab.png

grab.png

144 ms

preloader-white.gif

preloader-white.gif

163 ms

AEB600A4-9CDC-BD04-DF03786221F52A6F.jpg

AEB600A4-9CDC-BD04-DF03786221F52A6F.jpg

171 ms

21B1AACB-ABD4-B9F7-1B7925F8E6B33E8C.jpg

21B1AACB-ABD4-B9F7-1B7925F8E6B33E8C.jpg

205 ms

71949943-FDAF-ED46-390F015E23DAD159.jpg

71949943-FDAF-ED46-390F015E23DAD159.jpg

196 ms

rs-default.png

rs-default.png

186 ms

XLYgIZbkc4JPUL5CVArUVL0ntnAOTQ.ttf

XLYgIZbkc4JPUL5CVArUVL0ntnAOTQ.ttf

15 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

18 ms

collect

collect

34 ms

js

js

59 ms

Accessibility Review

kcoast.com accessibility score

66

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

kcoast.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

kcoast.com 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

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 Kcoast.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 Kcoast.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

kcoast.com

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