Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

937 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gactv.com page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gactv.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,230 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.344

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gactv.com

112 ms

www.gactv.com

79 ms

www.greatamericancountry.com

61 ms

site.min.md5-a7c1667f708b39c13e108c0b899bc268.css

37 ms

all.min.md5-df9eacd9dac64ef2c45b0fa101b3f133.js

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Gactv.com, 21% (14 requests) were made to Hgtvhome.sndimg.com and 19% (13 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (416 ms) relates to the external source Assets.adobedtm.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (68%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Gactv.com main page is 3.2 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. Javascripts take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 114.7 kB

  • Original 134.5 kB
  • After minification 86.3 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 48.2 kB, which is 36% 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 114.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 100.4 kB
  • After minification 96.7 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. Gactv images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 746.0 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 1.5 MB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 568.4 kB

  • Original 713.2 kB
  • After minification 712.7 kB
  • After compression 144.7 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. Gactv.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 568.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (67%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gactv. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gactv.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gactv.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gactv.com SEO score

70

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gactv.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Gactv.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 Gactv. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: