Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 52

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

fivestarflags.com

Five Star Flags manufactures and distributes the United States flag, State flags, flagpole kits and accessories

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

220 ms

Resources Loaded

992 ms

Page Rendered

128 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fivestarflags.com page load time and found that the first response time was 220 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fivestarflags.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fivestarflags.com

220 ms

www.fivestarflags.com

320 ms

fivestarflagsstyle

202 ms

urchin.js

6 ms

v5t.js

215 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Fivestarflags.com, 29% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 7% (1 request) were made to 0. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (320 ms) belongs to the original domain Fivestarflags.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.7 kB (13%)

Content Size

75.2 kB

After Optimization

65.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Fivestarflags.com main page is 75.2 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 39.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 8.2 kB
  • After minification 7.1 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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 1.1 kB, which is 14% 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 5.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 71 B

  • Original 39.2 kB
  • After minification 39.1 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. Five Star Flags images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 27.8 kB
  • After minification 27.0 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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 3.8 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (25%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Five Star Flags. 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 JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fivestarflags.com accessibility score

52

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

fivestarflags.com best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

fivestarflags.com SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fivestarflags.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 Fivestarflags.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 Five Star Flags. 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: