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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

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Page Load Speed

907 ms in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

868 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westmarine.com page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 868 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westmarine.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,000 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.172

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

PX-Show

39 ms

css

45 ms

dwanalytics-22.2.js

27 ms

dwac-21.7.js

57 ms

gretel.min.js

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Westmarine.com, 14% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 14% (1 request) were made to Cdn.cquotient.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (57 ms) belongs to the original domain Westmarine.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

45.3 kB

After Optimization

42.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Westmarine.com main page is 45.3 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 25.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 4.8 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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 3.0 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 14.7 kB
  • After minification 14.7 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. West Marine images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 86 B

  • Original 25.8 kB
  • After minification 25.8 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (50%)

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of West Marine. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

PX-Show

PX-Show

39 ms

css

css

45 ms

dwanalytics-22.2.js

dwanalytics-22.2.js

27 ms

dwac-21.7.js

dwac-21.7.js

57 ms

gretel.min.js

gretel.min.js

29 ms

wm-logo.png

wm-logo.png

43 ms

captcha.js

captcha.js

27 ms

Accessibility Review

westmarine.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

westmarine.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

westmarine.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Westmarine.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Westmarine.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 description is not detected on the main page of West Marine. 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: