Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 69

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

gescan.com

Gescan - Electrical Wholesale Supply in Canada | A Sonepar Company

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

332 ms

gescan.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to gescan.com homepage info - get ready to check Gescan best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about gescan.com

Electrical supplies, Electrical Wholesaler, Electrical distributor in Canada. Electrical supply for Residential, Commercial, and Industrial projects.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gescan.com page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gescan.com performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,930 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.048

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gescan.com

100 ms

www.gescan.com

246 ms

785a2c0ce586021a9a5c5e0f992da0cd.css

167 ms

741698e320fae4095cd61833a1ebfdb0.css

158 ms

bc72ea0920ef5f6f978ec4f1973b75d2.css

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Gescan.com, 73% (46 requests) were made to Cdn.gescan.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Survey.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (357 ms) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 976.4 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

730.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Gescan.com main page is 1.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 913.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 91.5 kB

  • Original 105.4 kB
  • After minification 76.7 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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 28.8 kB, which is 27% 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 91.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 416.1 kB
  • After minification 385.6 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. Gescan images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 623.4 kB

  • Original 913.1 kB
  • After minification 912.7 kB
  • After compression 289.7 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 623.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 230.9 kB

  • Original 272.7 kB
  • After minification 270.0 kB
  • After compression 41.8 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. Gescan.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 230.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (33%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gescan. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gescan.com accessibility score

74

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

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

gescan.com best practices score

69

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gescan.com SEO score

78

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

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 Gescan.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 Gescan.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 description is not detected on the main page of Gescan. 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: