Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

gearstar.com

High-Performance Transmissions, Custom-Built - Gearstar

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

34 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

gearstar.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Gearstar content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gearstar.com

GEARSTAR is a leading provider of automatic high-performance transmissions and torque converters in Ohio. Place your order online or call 330-434-5216.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gearstar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 34 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gearstar.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gearstar.com

34 ms

gearstar.com

77 ms

style.min.css

13 ms

style-wpzoom-social-icons.css

37 ms

nectar-slider.css

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 132 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (101 requests) were addressed to the original Gearstar.com, 8% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (463 ms) relates to the external source C.statcounter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 226.9 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Gearstar.com main page is 1.4 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. Images take 697.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 147.8 kB

  • Original 182.2 kB
  • After minification 178.0 kB
  • After compression 34.4 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 147.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 440 B

  • Original 697.6 kB
  • After minification 697.2 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. Gearstar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 41.4 kB

  • Original 279.5 kB
  • After minification 279.5 kB
  • After compression 238.0 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 41.4 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 37.2 kB

  • Original 256.8 kB
  • After minification 256.8 kB
  • After compression 219.6 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. Gearstar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.2 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (61%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gearstar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 38 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gearstar.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

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

gearstar.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

gearstar.com SEO score

93

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

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

    UTF-8

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

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