Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

eargear.com

Etymotic Research, Inc. - Etymotic

Page Load Speed

8.9 sec in total

First Response

3.9 sec

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

350 ms

About Website

Visit eargear.com now to see the best up-to-date Eargear content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about eargear.com

Etymotic offers high definition listening, hearing, assessment, enhancement & protection with specially engineered innovative products.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eargear.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.9 sec and then it took 5 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

eargear.com performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,790 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.596

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hearing-protection.html

3909 ms

jquery.min.js

27 ms

calendar-win2k-1.css

49 ms

widgets.css

49 ms

downloads.css

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Eargear.com, 24% (24 requests) were made to Media.etymotic.com and 19% (19 requests) were made to Js.etymotic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) relates to the external source Etymotic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (68%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

547.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Eargear.com main page is 1.7 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. Javascripts take 969.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 93.1 kB

  • Original 103.4 kB
  • After minification 84.0 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 19.4 kB, which is 19% 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 93.1 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 37.9 kB

  • Original 275.0 kB
  • After minification 237.1 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, Eargear needs image optimization as it can save up to 37.9 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 723.6 kB

  • Original 969.2 kB
  • After minification 822.0 kB
  • After compression 245.6 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 723.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 295.0 kB

  • Original 349.0 kB
  • After minification 310.5 kB
  • After compression 54.0 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. Eargear.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 295.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (68%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eargear. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

eargear.com accessibility score

91

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

eargear.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

eargear.com SEO score

93

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

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 Eargear.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 Eargear.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 description is not detected on the main page of Eargear. 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: