Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

stx.com

STX Sporting Goods Home Page - STX

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

185 ms

stx.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing STX content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about stx.com

STX is a global sporting goods leader, innovating since 1970 in the categories of lacrosse, field hockey, and ice hockey. Our story began with the introduction of the world's first synthetic lacr...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stx.com page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stx.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,690 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.09

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stx.com

48 ms

www.stx.com

410 ms

styles.css

49 ms

media-queries.css

38 ms

jquery.selectbox.css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (80 requests) were addressed to the original Stx.com, 14% (15 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (526 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (19%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Stx.com main page is 6.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 82.6 kB

  • Original 96.7 kB
  • After minification 91.8 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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 82.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 616.5 kB

  • Original 5.8 MB
  • After minification 5.2 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. Obviously, STX needs image optimization as it can save up to 616.5 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 379.1 kB

  • Original 541.3 kB
  • After minification 486.3 kB
  • After compression 162.2 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 379.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 169.6 kB

  • Original 179.4 kB
  • After minification 55.6 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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. Stx.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 169.6 kB or 95% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (25%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

67

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of STX. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stx.com accessibility score

63

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

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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>).

Best Practices

stx.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

stx.com SEO score

93

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

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 Stx.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 Stx.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

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