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Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

gex.com

VW Engine & Transmission - Premium Rebuilt Volkswagen Engines & Transmissions for your VW

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

183 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

235 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gex.com page load time and found that the first response time was 183 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gex.com performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

77/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gex.com

183 ms

index.htm

1687 ms

swfobject.js

139 ms

class.css

189 ms

plusone.js

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Gex.com, 16% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 13% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Gex.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 388.6 kB (65%)

Content Size

602.2 kB

After Optimization

213.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gex.com main page is 602.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 449.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 52.1 kB

  • Original 63.4 kB
  • After minification 47.6 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 15.8 kB, which is 25% 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 52.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 74.1 kB
  • After minification 69.7 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. Gex images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 319.6 kB

  • Original 449.8 kB
  • After minification 449.1 kB
  • After compression 130.2 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 319.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 14.9 kB
  • After minification 12.7 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. Gex.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (54%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gex. 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 from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gex.com

gex.com

183 ms

index.htm

index.htm

1687 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

139 ms

class.css

class.css

189 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

76 ms

frontnew.html

frontnew.html

2741 ms

gex-international-4001143.png

gex-international-4001143.png

80 ms

gex-international-4001143.js

gex-international-4001143.js

48 ms

bg.gif

bg.gif

80 ms

tophead.jpg

tophead.jpg

272 ms

menuleft.gif

menuleft.gif

114 ms

menudiv.gif

menudiv.gif

118 ms

boxbtm.gif

boxbtm.gif

117 ms

1776Turnkey.jpg

1776Turnkey.jpg

202 ms

ddot.gif

ddot.gif

203 ms

bullet_000.gif

bullet_000.gif

203 ms

trans.gif

trans.gif

208 ms

LateBusTurnkey.jpg

LateBusTurnkey.jpg

208 ms

DslTK16H.jpg

DslTK16H.jpg

269 ms

bullet4.gif

bullet4.gif

270 ms

grbg.gif

grbg.gif

270 ms

boxbgin.gif

boxbgin.gif

270 ms

menu_n.gif

menu_n.gif

324 ms

feelthefire42.jpg

feelthefire42.jpg

340 ms

DslTK16H_enlarged.jpg

DslTK16H_enlarged.jpg

336 ms

empi_small.gif

empi_small.gif

306 ms

bitcoin.gif

bitcoin.gif

343 ms

google.gif

google.gif

366 ms

gex.gif

gex.gif

393 ms

horidot.gif

horidot.gif

393 ms

mail_gmail.gif

mail_gmail.gif

396 ms

headingbg.gif

headingbg.gif

348 ms

all.js

all.js

42 ms

footerright.gif

footerright.gif

342 ms

lock.gif

lock.gif

371 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

18 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

16 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

121 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

105 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

46 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

45 ms

163 ms

W5F8_SL0XFawnjxHGsZjJA.ttf

W5F8_SL0XFawnjxHGsZjJA.ttf

91 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

40 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

78 ms

3193398744-postmessagerelay.js

3193398744-postmessagerelay.js

59 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

54 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

5 ms

runtime.js

runtime.js

29 ms

mobile.css

mobile.css

52 ms

2-gex-international-4001143.css

2-gex-international-4001143.css

20 ms

mail_n.gif

mail_n.gif

53 ms

like_box.php

like_box.php

93 ms

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26 ms

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32 ms

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39 ms

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69 ms

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69 ms

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46 ms

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10 ms

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10 ms

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4 ms

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10 ms

Accessibility Review

gex.com accessibility score

57

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.

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

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

gex.com best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gex.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gex.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 Gex.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Gex. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: