Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

giggear.co.uk

GigGear | Musical Instruments & Accessories - GigGear

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

689 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

623 ms

giggear.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit giggear.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Gig Gear content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about giggear.co.uk

Huge music shop in Harlow, Essex with drums, guitars, PA, recording, keyboards, pianos, tuition

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Key Findings

We analyzed Giggear.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 689 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

giggear.co.uk performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,220 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

giggear.co.uk

689 ms

styles.css

245 ms

app.js

644 ms

logo.svg

158 ms

793f8c19116787948c94a4d6b1f61104.jpg

371 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Giggear.co.uk, 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Assets.zendesk.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Giggear.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 804.3 kB (30%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Giggear.co.uk main page is 2.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 98.8 kB

  • Original 116.6 kB
  • After minification 113.3 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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 98.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 82.0 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Gig Gear images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 623.5 kB

  • Original 887.3 kB
  • After minification 887.3 kB
  • After compression 263.8 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 623.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (10%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

70

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gig Gear. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

giggear.co.uk accessibility score

86

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

giggear.co.uk best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

giggear.co.uk SEO score

91

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Giggear.co.uk 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 Giggear.co.uk 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 Gig Gear. 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: