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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

davesheer.com

Dave Sheer Guns – For your sheer shooting pleasure

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

569 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

361 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Davesheer.com page load time and found that the first response time was 569 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

davesheer.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.469

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

davesheer.com

569 ms

css

40 ms

styles.css

35 ms

iselector.css

34 ms

flexslider.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Davesheer.com, 48% (38 requests) were made to Cdn6.bigcommerce.com and 44% (35 requests) were made to Cdn5.bigcommerce.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (569 ms) belongs to the original domain Davesheer.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 818.8 kB (37%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Davesheer.com main page is 2.2 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. 75% 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 72.6 kB

  • Original 84.9 kB
  • After minification 81.0 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 72.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 253.9 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Obviously, Dave Sheer needs image optimization as it can save up to 253.9 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 295.4 kB

  • Original 384.1 kB
  • After minification 285.9 kB
  • After compression 88.7 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 295.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 196.9 kB

  • Original 240.0 kB
  • After minification 195.8 kB
  • After compression 43.1 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. Davesheer.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 196.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (54%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

35

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dave Sheer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

davesheer.com

davesheer.com

569 ms

css

css

40 ms

styles.css

styles.css

35 ms

iselector.css

iselector.css

34 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

33 ms

slide-show.css

slide-show.css

34 ms

styles-slide-show.css

styles-slide-show.css

35 ms

social.css

social.css

34 ms

styles.css

styles.css

67 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

58 ms

theme.css

theme.css

71 ms

grid.css

grid.css

69 ms

menu.css

menu.css

69 ms

product.attributes.css

product.attributes.css

50 ms

ui.all.css

ui.all.css

79 ms

product.quickview.css

product.quickview.css

80 ms

imodal.css

imodal.css

77 ms

store.css

store.css

75 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

100 ms

menudrop.js

menudrop.js

69 ms

iselector.js

iselector.js

67 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

66 ms

viewport.js

viewport.js

73 ms

matchMedia.js

matchMedia.js

73 ms

common.js

common.js

72 ms

jquery.autobox.js

jquery.autobox.js

84 ms

init.js

init.js

76 ms

jquery.uniform.min.js

jquery.uniform.min.js

77 ms

main.js

main.js

83 ms

site.js

site.js

83 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

117 ms

jquery.validate.js

jquery.validate.js

70 ms

product.functions.js

product.functions.js

66 ms

product.attributes.js

product.attributes.js

78 ms

quickview.js

quickview.js

77 ms

quickview.initialise.js

quickview.initialise.js

78 ms

jquery.form.js

jquery.form.js

78 ms

imodal.js

imodal.js

77 ms

quicksearch.js

quicksearch.js

76 ms

jquery.bgiframe.min.js

jquery.bgiframe.min.js

80 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

78 ms

visitor.js

visitor.js

79 ms

analytics.min.js

analytics.min.js

189 ms

loader.png

loader.png

161 ms

index.php

index.php

168 ms

background.png

background.png

204 ms

blank.png

blank.png

13 ms

sprite-social.png

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47 ms

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arrows-ffffff.png

14 ms

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46 ms

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83 ms

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84 ms

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93 ms

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96 ms

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156 ms

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75 ms

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39 ms

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42 ms

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46 ms

bg_direction_nav.png

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9 ms

Accessibility Review

davesheer.com accessibility score

77

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

davesheer.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

davesheer.com SEO score

91

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

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

    UTF-8

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

davesheer.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dave Sheer. 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: