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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

livesand.com

Live Sand Bio-Activ Live® Aragonite - No Waiting...Just Add Fish!®

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

682 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Livesand.com page load time and found that the first response time was 682 ms and then it took 3.1 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

livesand.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.515

15/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

livesand.com

682 ms

font-awesome.min.css

47 ms

css

22 ms

css

40 ms

style.css

186 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Livesand.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (682 ms) belongs to the original domain Livesand.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.3 MB (33%)

Content Size

9.9 MB

After Optimization

6.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Livesand.com main page is 9.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 78.8 kB

  • Original 93.7 kB
  • After minification 83.2 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.5 kB, which is 11% 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 78.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 3.2 MB

  • Original 9.7 MB
  • After minification 6.5 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. Obviously, Live Sand needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.2 MB or 33% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 92.5 kB
  • After minification 92.5 kB
  • After compression 83.8 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 43.5 kB
  • After minification 43.5 kB
  • After compression 39.7 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. Livesand.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (22%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Live Sand. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

livesand.com

livesand.com

682 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

47 ms

css

css

22 ms

css

css

40 ms

style.css

style.css

186 ms

shortcodes.css

shortcodes.css

127 ms

shortcodes_responsive.css

shortcodes_responsive.css

126 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

196 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

124 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

8 ms

collect

collect

25 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

67 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

155 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.js

jquery.magnific-popup.js

156 ms

custom.js

custom.js

252 ms

js

js

61 ms

image-size-sample-test1.png

image-size-sample-test1.png

22 ms

inventors1.png

inventors1.png

199 ms

live-sand-page-with-naturesocean-logo1.png

live-sand-page-with-naturesocean-logo1.png

131 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

374 ms

product-bg.png

product-bg.png

367 ms

instant-cycling-animated-logo.gif

instant-cycling-animated-logo.gif

138 ms

PDF_downlaod-300x296.png

PDF_downlaod-300x296.png

137 ms

choose-a-color3.png

choose-a-color3.png

131 ms

find-a-distributor.png

find-a-distributor.png

145 ms

naturesocean-wp-logo.jpg

naturesocean-wp-logo.jpg

231 ms

purewaterpebbles-wp-logo.jpg

purewaterpebbles-wp-logo.jpg

256 ms

fantasybowls-wp-logo.jpg

fantasybowls-wp-logo.jpg

199 ms

african-cichlid-wp-logo.jpg

african-cichlid-wp-logo.jpg

210 ms

livesand-logo.jpg

livesand-logo.jpg

264 ms

activ-flora-logo.jpg

activ-flora-logo.jpg

274 ms

activ-betta-wp-logo.jpg

activ-betta-wp-logo.jpg

292 ms

aquaterra-wp-logo.jpg

aquaterra-wp-logo.jpg

320 ms

reefsand-logo.jpg

reefsand-logo.jpg

327 ms

reptile-sciences-wp-logo.jpg

reptile-sciences-wp-logo.jpg

340 ms

naturesrocks-wp-logo.jpg

naturesrocks-wp-logo.jpg

358 ms

nutriseawater-logo.jpg

nutriseawater-logo.jpg

394 ms

hermithabitat-wp-logo.jpg

hermithabitat-wp-logo.jpg

391 ms

reactormedia-wp-logo.jpg

reactormedia-wp-logo.jpg

406 ms

100-percent1.png

100-percent1.png

182 ms

patents1.png

patents1.png

244 ms

black-beach.jpg

black-beach.jpg

425 ms

black-beach-livesand.png

black-beach-livesand.png

430 ms

black-beach-sand.jpg

black-beach-sand.jpg

548 ms

live-sand-1.jpg

live-sand-1.jpg

547 ms

natural-white-sand13.png

natural-white-sand13.png

433 ms

natural-white-beach-sand.jpg

natural-white-beach-sand.jpg

610 ms

live-sand-01.jpg

live-sand-01.jpg

611 ms

natural-white-sand0.png

natural-white-sand0.png

556 ms

pink-sand.jpg

pink-sand.jpg

557 ms

pink-live-sand.png

pink-live-sand.png

615 ms

australian-gold-texture-sample-test.jpg

australian-gold-texture-sample-test.jpg

622 ms

australian-gold.png

australian-gold.png

622 ms

reef-substrate.jpg

reef-substrate.jpg

682 ms

reef-substrate.png

reef-substrate.png

676 ms

patented-symbol.jpg

patented-symbol.jpg

674 ms

wwi-logo.png

wwi-logo.png

679 ms

font

font

83 ms

ETmodules_v2.ttf

ETmodules_v2.ttf

350 ms

Accessibility Review

livesand.com accessibility score

69

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

livesand.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

livesand.com SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Livesand.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 Livesand.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

livesand.com

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