Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

desertcart.com

desertcart | Self Ship and Assistant | Shop US, UK, UAE & India Stores and Ship Worldwide

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

615 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Desertcart.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

desertcart.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,750 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.121

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.desertcart.ae

1187 ms

client.min.js

267 ms

css

287 ms

application-c40d72a1e7b1e12a099d6a8fb3120380.css

424 ms

font-awesome.css

288 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Desertcart.com, 10% (10 requests) were made to Desertcart.ae and 8% (8 requests) were made to D.adroll.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 296.8 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Desertcart.com main page is 1.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 50.3 kB

  • Original 67.0 kB
  • After minification 58.5 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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 8.4 kB, which is 13% 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 50.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Desertcart images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 97.3 kB
  • After minification 97.0 kB
  • After compression 80.4 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 16.9 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 227.7 kB

  • Original 272.9 kB
  • After minification 265.9 kB
  • After compression 45.2 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. Desertcart.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 227.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (38%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Desertcart. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

desertcart.com accessibility score

88

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

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

desertcart.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

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

desertcart.com SEO score

99

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

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 Desertcart.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 Desertcart.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 Desertcart. 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: