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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

sportchek.com

Canada's Clothing, Shoes & Sporting Gear Retailer | Shop Jackets & Apparel, Shoes & More | Sport Chek

Page Load Speed

10 sec in total

First Response

195 ms

Resources Loaded

8.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sportchek.com page load time and found that the first response time was 195 ms and then it took 9.8 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

sportchek.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value41.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value98,730 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.093

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value121.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sportchek.ca

195 ms

common.js

246 ms

common.js

552 ms

launch-8c35a8ec3aea.min.js

41 ms

13666470279.js

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Sportchek.com, 13% (9 requests) were made to Fgl.scene7.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) relates to the external source Content.sportchek.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (69%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

910.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sportchek.com main page is 2.9 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. HTML takes 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 395.6 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 1.7 MB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 149.4 kB
  • After minification 149.4 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. Sport Chek images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 183.3 kB

  • Original 418.5 kB
  • After minification 418.0 kB
  • After compression 235.2 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 183.3 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 165.2 kB

  • Original 295.0 kB
  • After minification 295.0 kB
  • After compression 129.8 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. Sportchek.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 165.2 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (60%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sport Chek. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.sportchek.ca

www.sportchek.ca

195 ms

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common.js

246 ms

common.js

common.js

552 ms

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41 ms

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155 ms

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487 ms

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414 ms

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95 ms

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94 ms

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412 ms

gtm.js

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715 ms

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token.json

638 ms

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FGL_SC22_WK38-Takeover-EverydayOutrwr-cms-1920x400

612 ms

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1059 ms

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1065 ms

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FGL_Performance_Logo_BWp-1

1779 ms

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FGL_ripzone-logo-new

1778 ms

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Columbia_Logo_blk_384x218

1778 ms

FGL_TNF_240X136px_logo-v2

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1778 ms

FGL_FWD-Logo-240x136

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1777 ms

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Asics_Logo_blk_262x208

1772 ms

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100 ms

common.js

common.js

550 ms

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146 ms

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131 ms

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129 ms

site.min.js

site.min.js

2199 ms

api_dynamic.js

api_dynamic.js

2619 ms

quantum-sportchek.js

quantum-sportchek.js

2678 ms

verify.js

verify.js

2587 ms

ld.js

ld.js

2584 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

815 ms

collect.js

collect.js

2540 ms

js

js

860 ms

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2541 ms

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2543 ms

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gigya.js

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tags.js

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semafone.js

1024 ms

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price

3774 ms

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496 ms

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383 ms

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Accessibility Review

sportchek.com accessibility score

75

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

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.

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

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

Best Practices

sportchek.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

Serves images with low resolution

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

sportchek.com SEO score

93

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

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 Sportchek.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 Sportchek.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

sportchek.com

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