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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

retailguide.com

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Page Load Speed

20.6 sec in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

20.3 sec

Page Rendered

171 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Retailguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 20.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

retailguide.com performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,450 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

retailguide.com

149 ms

default,styles.css

59 ms

l_rgbag.gif

111 ms

t_rg.gif

110 ms

mc.gif

109 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Retailguide.com, 33% (20 requests) were made to Lib.nu and 15% (9 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.2 sec) relates to the external source Assoc-amazon.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 92.8 kB (13%)

Content Size

696.0 kB

After Optimization

603.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Retailguide.com main page is 696.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 490.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 36.5 kB

  • Original 45.2 kB
  • After minification 44.8 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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 36.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 31 B

  • Original 158.8 kB
  • After minification 158.8 kB

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. Retail Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 56.1 kB

  • Original 490.5 kB
  • After minification 490.3 kB
  • After compression 434.4 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 56.1 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 144 B

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.5 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Retailguide.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (67%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Retail Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

retailguide.com

retailguide.com

149 ms

default,styles.css

default,styles.css

59 ms

l_rgbag.gif

l_rgbag.gif

111 ms

t_rg.gif

t_rg.gif

110 ms

mc.gif

mc.gif

109 ms

mn.gif

mn.gif

111 ms

wmap_rg.gif

wmap_rg.gif

112 ms

b_rg_go.gif

b_rg_go.gif

111 ms

mini_rg.gif

mini_rg.gif

141 ms

ir

ir

20172 ms

ipro.rg.js

ipro.rg.js

140 ms

mg_000.js

mg_000.js

118 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

68 ms

i_sitegroup_metnet_rg-std_new.css

i_sitegroup_metnet_rg-std_new.css

54 ms

i_sitecolor_metnet_rg-std_new.css

i_sitecolor_metnet_rg-std_new.css

77 ms

l_rgbag.gif

l_rgbag.gif

133 ms

t_rg.gif

t_rg.gif

150 ms

mc.gif

mc.gif

149 ms

mn.gif

mn.gif

148 ms

wmap_rg.gif

wmap_rg.gif

181 ms

b_rg_go.gif

b_rg_go.gif

157 ms

s.gif

s.gif

44 ms

mini_rg.gif

mini_rg.gif

137 ms

ipro.rg.js

ipro.rg.js

152 ms

s.gif

s.gif

111 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

23 ms

dot_rg_c4.gif

dot_rg_c4.gif

27 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

105 ms

dot_rg_c4.gif

dot_rg_c4.gif

31 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

232 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

27 ms

ads

ads

417 ms

ads

ads

530 ms

ads

ads

481 ms

reactive_library.js

reactive_library.js

157 ms

load_preloaded_resource.js

load_preloaded_resource.js

131 ms

abg_lite.js

abg_lite.js

130 ms

s

s

16 ms

window_focus.js

window_focus.js

118 ms

qs_click_protection.js

qs_click_protection.js

22 ms

ufs_web_display.js

ufs_web_display.js

22 ms

bbae3fd3506d8d9338f85d10ea9db8af.js

bbae3fd3506d8d9338f85d10ea9db8af.js

128 ms

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icon.png

16 ms

gdn

gdn

144 ms

css

css

109 ms

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95 ms

feedback_grey600_24dp.png

feedback_grey600_24dp.png

31 ms

fullscreen_api_adapter.js

fullscreen_api_adapter.js

110 ms

interstitial_ad_frame.js

interstitial_ad_frame.js

109 ms

settings_grey600_24dp.png

settings_grey600_24dp.png

115 ms

activeview

activeview

96 ms

one_click_handler_one_afma.js

one_click_handler_one_afma.js

83 ms

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45 ms

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26 ms

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168 ms

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169 ms

gdn

gdn

152 ms

activeview

activeview

151 ms

css

css

143 ms

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89 ms

Accessibility Review

retailguide.com accessibility score

76

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

retailguide.com best practices score

58

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

retailguide.com SEO score

50

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Retailguide.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 Retailguide.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

retailguide.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Retail Guide. 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: