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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

shearsdirect.com

ShearsDirect - #1 Supplier of Pet Grooming Shears Since 1998

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

871 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

600 ms

shearsdirect.com screenshot

About Website

Visit shearsdirect.com now to see the best up-to-date Shears Direct content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about shearsdirect.com

Discover the best wholesale hair cutting and pet grooming supplies at ShearsDirect. Shop our affordable high-quality shears, scissors, clippers and more.

Visit shearsdirect.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Shearsdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 871 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shearsdirect.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,220 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.744

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.shearsdirect.com

871 ms

core.css

41 ms

bootstrap.css

57 ms

fontello.min.css

46 ms

css2

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 154 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (140 requests) were addressed to the original Shearsdirect.com, 2% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to S4s.experience.stjude.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (871 ms) belongs to the original domain Shearsdirect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 194.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shearsdirect.com main page is 2.7 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 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 169.4 kB

  • Original 191.0 kB
  • After minification 189.7 kB
  • After compression 21.7 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 169.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Shears Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 104.2 kB
  • After minification 103.1 kB
  • After compression 84.9 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 19.3 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 52.1 kB
  • After minification 52.1 kB
  • After compression 47.9 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. Shearsdirect.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (18%)

Requests Now

146

After Optimization

120

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 146 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shears Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.shearsdirect.com

www.shearsdirect.com

871 ms

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41 ms

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Accessibility Review

shearsdirect.com accessibility score

83

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

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

shearsdirect.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

SEO Factors

shearsdirect.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 Shearsdirect.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 Shearsdirect.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

shearsdirect.com

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