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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

shadow-caster.com

LED Lighting for Boats & Yachts | Shadow-Caster

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

389 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

224 ms

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About Website

Welcome to shadow-caster.com homepage info - get ready to check Shadow Caster best content right away, or after learning these important things about shadow-caster.com

LED Lighting for boats of all sizes. Underwater Lights, Courtesy Lights, Down Lights, Spreader Lights, and award-winning Lighting Controls.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shadow-caster.com page load time and found that the first response time was 389 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shadow-caster.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

77/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,270 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.067

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shadow-caster.com

389 ms

www.shadow-caster.com

280 ms

sdm_wp_styles.css

84 ms

wpsm-style.css

83 ms

styles.min.css

140 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Shadow-caster.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Widget.freshworks.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (389 ms) belongs to the original domain Shadow-caster.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 214.7 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Shadow-caster.com main page is 1.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 188.3 kB

  • Original 215.9 kB
  • After minification 213.9 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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 188.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 25.3 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Shadow Caster images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 220.1 kB
  • After minification 220.1 kB
  • After compression 219.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (55%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shadow Caster. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shadow-caster.com

shadow-caster.com

389 ms

www.shadow-caster.com

www.shadow-caster.com

280 ms

sdm_wp_styles.css

sdm_wp_styles.css

84 ms

wpsm-style.css

wpsm-style.css

83 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

140 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

112 ms

sdm_wp_scripts.js

sdm_wp_scripts.js

136 ms

2eeebb84c719f3017d5fe99db1e94321.min.css

2eeebb84c719f3017d5fe99db1e94321.min.css

182 ms

index.js

index.js

172 ms

index.js

index.js

171 ms

wpsm-script.js

wpsm-script.js

219 ms

api.js

api.js

34 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

283 ms

index.js

index.js

236 ms

forms.js

forms.js

234 ms

955ea8e706aa7bad16b96377376bc5fb.min.js

955ea8e706aa7bad16b96377376bc5fb.min.js

281 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

2 ms

hotjar-3346885.js

hotjar-3346885.js

146 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

72 ms

Shadow-Caster-Marine-LED-Lighting-Logo-STANDARD-2023.png

Shadow-Caster-Marine-LED-Lighting-Logo-STANDARD-2023.png

181 ms

Shadow-Caster-Marine-LED-Lighting-Logo-MOBILE-2023.png

Shadow-Caster-Marine-LED-Lighting-Logo-MOBILE-2023.png

126 ms

SCM-LC-N2K-PLUS-V2-GUI-Phone-Banner-Black-Oct23.jpg

SCM-LC-N2K-PLUS-V2-GUI-Phone-Banner-Black-Oct23.jpg

182 ms

Underwater-Lights.jpg

Underwater-Lights.jpg

190 ms

Above-Water-Lights.jpg

Above-Water-Lights.jpg

180 ms

Control-Systems.jpg

Control-Systems.jpg

203 ms

Power-Distribution.jpg

Power-Distribution.jpg

182 ms

Made-USA-204x204-1.png

Made-USA-204x204-1.png

236 ms

151000000488.json

151000000488.json

63 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

61 ms

Homepage-Shadow-Caster-Underwater-Lights.jpg

Homepage-Shadow-Caster-Underwater-Lights.jpg

83 ms

Intro-Background-Image3.jpg

Intro-Background-Image3.jpg

74 ms

Why-Choose-Shadow-Caster-Marine-LED-Lighting-Fountain-Boat-Image.jpg

Why-Choose-Shadow-Caster-Marine-LED-Lighting-Fountain-Boat-Image.jpg

181 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

194 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

126 ms

awb-icons.woff

awb-icons.woff

147 ms

modules.8da33a8f469c3b5ffcec.js

modules.8da33a8f469c3b5ffcec.js

17 ms

Accessibility Review

shadow-caster.com accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

shadow-caster.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

shadow-caster.com SEO score

97

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 Shadow-caster.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 Shadow-caster.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

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