Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

goldseek.com

Homepage | GoldSeek

Page Load Speed

9 sec in total

First Response

4.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

389 ms

goldseek.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Gold Seek content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about goldseek.com

Since 1995, providing gold investors with latest gold prices, gold news & headlines, gold stocks & precious metals information!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Goldseek.com page load time and found that the first response time was 4.1 sec and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

goldseek.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,730 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.001

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

goldseek.com

4093 ms

goldseek.css

35 ms

spcjs.php

54 ms

jquery.min.js

31 ms

organictabs.jquery.js

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Goldseek.com, 20% (30 requests) were made to Advertising.goldseek.com and 8% (12 requests) were made to Chartseeker.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Goldseek.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 580.3 kB (46%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

691.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Goldseek.com main page is 1.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 556.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 145.0 kB

  • Original 170.7 kB
  • After minification 163.3 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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. 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 145.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 44.5 kB

  • Original 277.3 kB
  • After minification 232.8 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. Obviously, Gold Seek needs image optimization as it can save up to 44.5 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 171.7 kB

  • Original 556.2 kB
  • After minification 545.6 kB
  • After compression 384.5 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 171.7 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 219.1 kB

  • Original 267.8 kB
  • After minification 263.9 kB
  • After compression 48.7 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. Goldseek.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 219.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 96 (68%)

Requests Now

142

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 142 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gold Seek. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

goldseek.com accessibility score

73

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

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.

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

goldseek.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

goldseek.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Goldseek.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 Goldseek.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gold Seek. 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: