Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

the-gadgeteer.com

The Gadgeteer - Gadget news and reviews since 1997!

Page Load Speed

181.9 sec in total

First Response

163 ms

Resources Loaded

130.2 sec

Page Rendered

51.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed The-gadgeteer.com page load time and found that the first response time was 163 ms and then it took 181.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 25 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

the-gadgeteer.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value55.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value85,460 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.067

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value125.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

the-gadgeteer.com

163 ms

the-gadgeteer.com

728 ms

css.css

568 ms

simple-payments.css

812 ms

font-awesome.min.css

977 ms

Our browser made a total of 233 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original The-gadgeteer.com, 6% (13 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 5% (12 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (25.4 sec) relates to the external source Ic.tynt.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.1 MB (35%)

Content Size

9.0 MB

After Optimization

5.8 MB

In fact, the total size of The-gadgeteer.com main page is 9.0 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. Images take 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 120.8 kB

  • Original 148.4 kB
  • After minification 144.7 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 120.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 345.4 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.5 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. The Gadgeteer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.1 MB
  • After compression 1.2 MB

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 2.1 MB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 567.6 kB

  • Original 717.3 kB
  • After minification 672.0 kB
  • After compression 149.6 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. The-gadgeteer.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 567.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 125 (65%)

Requests Now

192

After Optimization

67

The browser has sent 192 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Gadgeteer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 75 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

the-gadgeteer.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

the-gadgeteer.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

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

the-gadgeteer.com SEO score

92

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

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 The-gadgeteer.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 The-gadgeteer.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 The Gadgeteer. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: