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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

poolcentral.com

Pool Supplies & Outdoor Poolside Decor | Pool Central

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

107 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

753 ms

poolcentral.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Poolcentral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 107 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

poolcentral.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,870 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

poolcentral.com

107 ms

poolcentral.com

122 ms

www.poolcentral.com

472 ms

theme-bundle.polyfills.js

157 ms

theme-bundle.head_async.js

156 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Poolcentral.com, 58% (31 requests) were made to Cdn11.bigcommerce.com and 19% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (851 ms) relates to the external source Cdn11.bigcommerce.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 355.4 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Poolcentral.com main page is 2.8 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 202.0 kB

  • Original 238.9 kB
  • After minification 216.9 kB
  • After compression 36.9 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 202.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Pool Central images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 151.4 kB

  • Original 316.2 kB
  • After minification 311.7 kB
  • After compression 164.9 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 151.4 kB or 48% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (40%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pool Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

poolcentral.com

poolcentral.com

107 ms

poolcentral.com

poolcentral.com

122 ms

www.poolcentral.com

www.poolcentral.com

472 ms

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157 ms

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156 ms

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97 ms

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css

156 ms

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212 ms

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155 ms

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155 ms

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156 ms

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156 ms

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776 ms

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779 ms

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155 ms

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776 ms

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774 ms

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207 ms

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240 ms

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148 ms

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130 ms

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132 ms

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411 ms

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32 ms

Accessibility Review

poolcentral.com accessibility score

89

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

poolcentral.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

poolcentral.com SEO score

92

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Poolcentral.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 Poolcentral.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

poolcentral.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Pool Central. 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: