Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

sephora.sa

SEPHORA ≡ Makeup ⋅ Perfume ⋅ Skincare ⋅ Beauty

Page Load Speed

11.4 sec in total

First Response

922 ms

Resources Loaded

9 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

sephora.sa screenshot

About Website

Welcome to sephora.sa homepage info - get ready to check SEPHORA best content for Saudi Arabia right away, or after learning these important things about sephora.sa

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sephora.sa page load time and found that the first response time was 922 ms and then it took 10.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sephora.sa performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,770 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sephora.sa

922 ms

fonts.css

136 ms

style.css

383 ms

style_target2sell.css

198 ms

header_layers.js

217 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Sephora.sa, 2% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.tagcommander.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Sc-static.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Sephora.sa.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (58%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Sephora.sa main page is 3.0 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. CSS take 932.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 422.4 kB

  • Original 489.1 kB
  • After minification 460.8 kB
  • After compression 66.8 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. 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 422.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 30 B

  • Original 775.8 kB
  • After minification 775.8 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. SEPHORA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 498.6 kB

  • Original 769.8 kB
  • After minification 764.4 kB
  • After compression 271.2 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 498.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 809.2 kB

  • Original 932.1 kB
  • After minification 932.1 kB
  • After compression 122.9 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. Sephora.sa needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 809.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 66 (56%)

Requests Now

117

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 117 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SEPHORA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 53 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sephora.sa accessibility score

64

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

sephora.sa best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

sephora.sa SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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