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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

swimcap.com

The UK's Number 1 Supplier of Swim Caps and Swim Hats – Swimcap

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

183 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

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About Website

Visit swimcap.com now to see the best up-to-date Swimcap content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about swimcap.com

Swimcap.com was formed in 1980, with a vision to significantly improve the level of service that existed in the sportswear industry. The early business model focused on creating client specific swimwe...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Swimcap.com page load time and found that the first response time was 183 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

swimcap.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.144

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

swimcap.com

183 ms

swimcap.com

363 ms

www.swimcap.com

831 ms

alpine.min.js

54 ms

js

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Swimcap.com, 10% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (1 request) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Swimcap.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 259.4 kB (2%)

Content Size

16.7 MB

After Optimization

16.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Swimcap.com main page is 16.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 16.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 239.9 kB

  • Original 265.8 kB
  • After minification 240.0 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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 239.9 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

  • Original 16.4 MB
  • After minification 16.4 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. Swimcap images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 114 B

  • Original 708 B
  • After minification 708 B
  • After compression 594 B

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 114 B or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5 B

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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (36%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Swimcap. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

swimcap.com

swimcap.com

183 ms

swimcap.com

swimcap.com

363 ms

www.swimcap.com

www.swimcap.com

831 ms

alpine.min.js

alpine.min.js

54 ms

js

js

77 ms

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206 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

105 ms

sb-instagram.min.css

sb-instagram.min.css

203 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

269 ms

vendors-style.css

vendors-style.css

272 ms

style.css

style.css

281 ms

app.css

app.css

488 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

294 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

jquery.blockUI.min.js

297 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

356 ms

woocommerce.min.js

woocommerce.min.js

357 ms

cart-fragments.min.js

cart-fragments.min.js

370 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

390 ms

sb-instagram.min.js

sb-instagram.min.js

543 ms

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127 ms

p.css

p.css

22 ms

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113 ms

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287 ms

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317 ms

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317 ms

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1132 ms

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656 ms

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placeholder.png

254 ms

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490 ms

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107 ms

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91 ms

Accessibility Review

swimcap.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

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

swimcap.com 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

swimcap.com SEO score

83

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Swimcap.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 Swimcap.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 Swimcap. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: