Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

switchbox.express

Switchbox Express - High Quality Switchboxes & Spares

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

259 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

468 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Switchbox.express page load time and found that the first response time was 259 ms and then it took 6.1 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

switchbox.express performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.117

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

switchbox.express

259 ms

switchboxexpress.com

1534 ms

active-filters.css

196 ms

add-to-cart-form.css

336 ms

packages-style.css

322 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Switchbox.express, 75% (69 requests) were made to Switchboxexpress.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Switchboxexpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (74%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

661.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Switchbox.express main page is 2.5 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 74.2 kB

  • Original 94.8 kB
  • After minification 94.8 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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 74.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 206.4 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. Obviously, Switchbox needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 85% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 559.0 kB

  • Original 862.1 kB
  • After minification 862.1 kB
  • After compression 303.1 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 559.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 38.2 kB

  • Original 169.3 kB
  • After minification 169.2 kB
  • After compression 131.0 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. Switchbox.express needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.2 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (82%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Switchbox. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 48 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

switchbox.express accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

switchbox.express 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

switchbox.express SEO score

90

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

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