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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

ricksrods.com

Rick's Rods - Rick's Rods Vintage Fly Fishing Rods, Reels, and Tackle @ Denver, Colorado

Page Load Speed

663 ms in total

First Response

75 ms

Resources Loaded

427 ms

Page Rendered

161 ms

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About Website

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

Rick's Rods, owner of Phillipson Rod Company, specializes in buying, selling, and repairing high quality, vintage bamboo and fiberglass fly fishing rods.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ricksrods.com page load time and found that the first response time was 75 ms and then it took 588 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ricksrods.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ricksrods.com

75 ms

ricksrods.com

94 ms

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

49 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

72 ms

jquery-ui.css

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Ricksrods.com, 17% (3 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (195 ms) belongs to the original domain Ricksrods.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 175.3 kB (33%)

Content Size

529.3 kB

After Optimization

354.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ricksrods.com main page is 529.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 296.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 12.0 kB
  • After minification 10.1 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 1.9 kB, which is 16% 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 8.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 296.3 kB
  • After minification 294.3 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. Rick S Rods images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 77.6 kB

  • Original 106.9 kB
  • After minification 97.0 kB
  • After compression 29.2 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 77.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 87.7 kB

  • Original 114.1 kB
  • After minification 112.1 kB
  • After compression 26.5 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. Ricksrods.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 87.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (75%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rick S Rods. 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

ricksrods.com

ricksrods.com

75 ms

ricksrods.com

ricksrods.com

94 ms

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

49 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

72 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

93 ms

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.6.pack.js

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.6.pack.js

24 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

106 ms

tether.min.js

tether.min.js

136 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

138 ms

jquery.menu-aim.js

jquery.menu-aim.js

123 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

195 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

123 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

68 ms

public.css

public.css

154 ms

new.css

new.css

195 ms

js

js

120 ms

top_banner.png

top_banner.png

105 ms

bannerWelcome.jpg

bannerWelcome.jpg

103 ms

Accessibility Review

ricksrods.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

ricksrods.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ricksrods.com SEO score

93

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 Ricksrods.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 Ricksrods.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

ricksrods.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Rick S Rods. 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: