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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 52

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

lowe.com

Aluminum Fishing Boats - Bass, Ski, Bay, & Pontoon Boats | Lowe Boats

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

918 ms

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About Website

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

As the leading manufacturer of fishing boats and pontoons, we build quality boats for outdoor-loving families and anglers. From bass boats to ski boats, our products are built with high-quality alumin...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lowe.com page load time and found that the first response time was 69 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lowe.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.096

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lowe.com

69 ms

www.loweboats.com

292 ms

css

40 ms

bootstrap.css

88 ms

template.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 120 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Lowe.com, 45% (54 requests) were made to Loweboats.com and 44% (53 requests) were made to Images.loweboats.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (570 ms) relates to the external source Images.loweboats.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (7%)

Content Size

15.5 MB

After Optimization

14.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Lowe.com main page is 15.5 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. 80% 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 14.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 336.7 kB

  • Original 361.6 kB
  • After minification 163.0 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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 198.7 kB, which is 55% 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 336.7 kB or 93% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 550.4 kB

  • Original 14.7 MB
  • After minification 14.2 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. Lowe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 233.2 kB

  • Original 353.9 kB
  • After minification 307.1 kB
  • After compression 120.7 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 233.2 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (15%)

Requests Now

111

After Optimization

94

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 111 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lowe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lowe.com

lowe.com

69 ms

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292 ms

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40 ms

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70 ms

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68 ms

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70 ms

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Accessibility Review

lowe.com accessibility score

52

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

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

lowe.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

lowe.com SEO score

83

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lowe.com 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 Lowe.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

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