Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

westernwear.com

Sheplers | Western Wear & Cowboy Boots - FREE SHIPPING!

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

247 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

624 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westernwear.com page load time and found that the first response time was 247 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westernwear.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,300 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.247

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sheplers.com

247 ms

bootstrap311.min.min.20160310.css

51 ms

shepcombined.less.min.20160310.css

89 ms

htmlbanner.less.min.20160310.css

84 ms

modal-bs3.less.min.20160310.css

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Westernwear.com, 11% (4 requests) were made to Sheplers.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Libs.coremetrics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (959 ms) relates to the external source D1yvdgbmeqok5q.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 434.9 kB (65%)

Content Size

666.3 kB

After Optimization

231.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Westernwear.com main page is 666.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 330.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 78.8 kB

  • Original 91.8 kB
  • After minification 73.1 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.7 kB, which is 20% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 78.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3 B

  • Original 87.2 kB
  • After minification 87.2 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. Western Wear images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 227.3 kB

  • Original 330.3 kB
  • After minification 312.6 kB
  • After compression 103.1 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 227.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 128.8 kB

  • Original 157.0 kB
  • After minification 155.9 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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. Westernwear.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 128.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (70%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Western Wear. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

westernwear.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

westernwear.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

westernwear.com SEO score

71

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Westernwear.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 Westernwear.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 description is not detected on the main page of Western Wear. 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: