Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

uspreciousmetals.com

US Precious Metals | Gold Coins, Silver Coins, Platinum Coins, & Palladium Coins

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

233 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

881 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uspreciousmetals.com page load time and found that the first response time was 233 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uspreciousmetals.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value880 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.309

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.uspreciousmetals.com

233 ms

wc-cybersource-checkout-block.css

46 ms

jquery.selectBox.css

57 ms

font-awesome.css

202 ms

prettyPhoto.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Uspreciousmetals.com, 20% (30 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (15 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (534 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 276.8 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

921.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Uspreciousmetals.com main page is 1.2 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. Images take 532.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 273.4 kB

  • Original 313.8 kB
  • After minification 294.4 kB
  • After compression 40.4 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 273.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 532.4 kB
  • After minification 532.4 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. US Precious Metals images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 276 B

  • Original 187.8 kB
  • After minification 187.8 kB
  • After compression 187.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 164.3 kB
  • After minification 164.2 kB
  • After compression 161.2 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. Uspreciousmetals.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (77%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of US Precious Metals. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 49 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

uspreciousmetals.com accessibility score

86

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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 IDs are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

uspreciousmetals.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

uspreciousmetals.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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