Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

covesys.com

Cove Systems - ERP, POS, SaaS & eCommerce Software for Growing Businesses

Page Load Speed

10.5 sec in total

First Response

4.9 sec

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

172 ms

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About Website

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Cove Systems and the Stream series of ERP Business Software for Distribution companies. Modules: Dropshipping, Accounting, Warehousing, Inventory, eCommerce, CRM & more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Covesys.com page load time and found that the first response time was 4.9 sec and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

covesys.com performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

59/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,430 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.041

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

covesys.com

4906 ms

home_menu.css

514 ms

cove_homepage_cms_ff3.css

516 ms

cove_home_cms_ie7.css

515 ms

cove_homepage_cms_ff5.css

514 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Covesys.com, 68% (21 requests) were made to Covesys.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Covesys.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 104.2 kB (24%)

Content Size

434.3 kB

After Optimization

330.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Covesys.com main page is 434.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 291.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 77.2 kB

  • Original 104.4 kB
  • After minification 95.8 kB
  • After compression 27.2 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 77.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 291.2 kB
  • After minification 280.0 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. Cove Sys images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 29.6 kB
  • After minification 28.5 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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 9.3 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 9.0 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. Covesys.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (30%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cove Sys. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

covesys.com accessibility score

67

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

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

covesys.com 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

SEO Factors

covesys.com SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Covesys.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 Covesys.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 Cove Sys. 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: