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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

decks.com

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Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

385 ms

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About Website

Welcome to decks.com homepage info - get ready to check Decks best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about decks.com

Decks.com has everything you need for your new deck, such as downloadable deck plans and step-by-step guides. Get started on your project at Decks.com.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Decks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

decks.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,630 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

decks.com

96 ms

launch-724d16ad81ae.min.js

55 ms

optimize.js

82 ms

css

78 ms

third-party-plugins.min.css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Decks.com, 12% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Decks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 327.7 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

710.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Decks.com main page is 1.0 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. Javascripts take 640.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 85.3 kB

  • Original 106.9 kB
  • After minification 104.3 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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 85.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 108.4 kB
  • After minification 96.4 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, Decks needs image optimization as it can save up to 12.0 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 148.4 kB

  • Original 640.5 kB
  • After minification 640.5 kB
  • After compression 492.1 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 148.4 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 82.0 kB

  • Original 182.5 kB
  • After minification 182.1 kB
  • After compression 100.5 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. Decks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 82.0 kB or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (43%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

46

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Decks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

decks.com

decks.com

96 ms

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55 ms

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82 ms

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78 ms

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16 ms

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46 ms

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78 ms

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50 ms

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287 ms

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119 ms

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1045 ms

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1108 ms

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856 ms

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690 ms

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692 ms

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Accessibility Review

decks.com accessibility score

89

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

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.

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

decks.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

decks.com SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Decks.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 Decks.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

decks.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Decks. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: