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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

cartthrob.com

CartThrob: ExpressionEngine Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software

Page Load Speed

24.7 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

10.4 sec

Page Rendered

14.1 sec

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About Website

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CartThrob is an award-winning ExpressionEngine eCommerce add-on. Create a unique shopping experience on your website using our shopping cart software today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cartthrob.com page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 24.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cartthrob.com performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cartthrob.com

202 ms

www.cartthrob.com

1102 ms

www.cartthrob.com

492 ms

jquery.form.js

328 ms

main.css

398 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Cartthrob.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Cartthrob.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 281.1 kB (34%)

Content Size

833.8 kB

After Optimization

552.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cartthrob.com main page is 833.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 440.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 21.3 kB
  • After minification 19.1 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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. 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 15.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 440.8 kB
  • After minification 424.1 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. Cart Throb images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 133.8 kB

  • Original 233.5 kB
  • After minification 217.4 kB
  • After compression 99.7 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 133.8 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 115.6 kB

  • Original 138.2 kB
  • After minification 128.0 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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. Cartthrob.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 115.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (38%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cart Throb. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cartthrob.com

cartthrob.com

202 ms

www.cartthrob.com

www.cartthrob.com

1102 ms

www.cartthrob.com

www.cartthrob.com

492 ms

jquery.form.js

jquery.form.js

328 ms

main.css

main.css

398 ms

testimonials.css

testimonials.css

412 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

410 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

bootstrap-responsive.css

318 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

446 ms

prettify.js

prettify.js

420 ms

cart.js

cart.js

2362 ms

cartthrob_mini_logo.png

cartthrob_mini_logo.png

849 ms

glyphicons-halflings-white.png

glyphicons-halflings-white.png

1509 ms

cartthrob_background.jpg

cartthrob_background.jpg

1838 ms

glyphicons-halflings.png

glyphicons-halflings.png

1603 ms

memorybox_calendars_1.jpg

memorybox_calendars_1.jpg

1603 ms

stormwatches-au-1.jpg

stormwatches-au-1.jpg

1627 ms

thumb_charleston_home.jpg

thumb_charleston_home.jpg

1827 ms

briar_home_thumb.jpg

briar_home_thumb.jpg

2610 ms

search_bot.jpg

search_bot.jpg

3040 ms

target_bot.jpg

target_bot.jpg

3041 ms

love_bot.jpg

love_bot.jpg

3039 ms

link_bot.jpg

link_bot.jpg

3265 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

571 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

1147 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

2023 ms

ATRK_FC6990E6_min.js

ATRK_FC6990E6_min.js

1852 ms

collect

collect

389 ms

9.gif

9.gif

783 ms

goal.min.js

goal.min.js

691 ms

626 ms

pixel

pixel

377 ms

Pug

Pug

598 ms

tap.php

tap.php

17 ms

Accessibility Review

cartthrob.com accessibility score

72

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Best Practices

cartthrob.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

cartthrob.com SEO score

73

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

cartthrob.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cart Throb. 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: