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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

rackstarz.com

Vehicle Rack & Hitch Products | Overlanding Experts | Rackstarz — Rackstarz Vehicle Rack & Hitch

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

244 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

516 ms

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About Website

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RackStarz is a one stop shop for vehicle rack and storage. We sell hundreds of rack and hitch solutions - and only from the brands that we use and love ourselves. Once we find the best base system for...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rackstarz.com page load time and found that the first response time was 244 ms and then it took 2.9 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

rackstarz.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,750 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.855

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rackstarz.com

244 ms

preloads.js

40 ms

load_feature-87876fa245af19cbd14aa886ed59c6aa8a27c45d24dcd7a81cf2d2323506233e.js

40 ms

storefront-a2d444786d996da5634fbbaeeffe6104ee672440dfa6cdcaebfb27dceaaf9c0f.js

30 ms

features-1c0b396bd4d054b94abae1eb6a1bd6ba47beb35525c57a217c77a862ff06d83f.js

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Rackstarz.com, 7% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.shopify.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Embed.closeby.co. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Rackstarz.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 356.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rackstarz.com main page is 4.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 154.2 kB

  • Original 181.0 kB
  • After minification 144.8 kB
  • After compression 26.8 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 36.2 kB, which is 20% 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 154.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 80.9 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Rackstarz images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 77.5 kB

  • Original 478.1 kB
  • After minification 478.1 kB
  • After compression 400.6 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 77.5 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 43.4 kB

  • Original 132.0 kB
  • After minification 132.0 kB
  • After compression 88.6 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. Rackstarz.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.4 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (47%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rackstarz. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rackstarz.com

rackstarz.com

244 ms

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preloads.js

40 ms

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40 ms

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30 ms

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31 ms

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43 ms

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33 ms

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47 ms

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62 ms

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45 ms

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58 ms

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57 ms

theme.css

theme.css

49 ms

af-css.css

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48 ms

superstore.js

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155 ms

custom.js

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52 ms

matchHeight.js

matchHeight.js

155 ms

hundt.js

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158 ms

instantPage.min.js

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187 ms

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128 ms

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125 ms

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124 ms

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95 ms

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892 ms

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359 ms

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95 ms

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Accessibility Review

rackstarz.com accessibility score

80

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Best Practices

rackstarz.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rackstarz.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

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

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 Rackstarz.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 Rackstarz.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

rackstarz.com

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