Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

gun-news.com

Gun Tests | The Consumer Resource for the Serious Shooter

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

23 ms

Resources Loaded

831 ms

Page Rendered

183 ms

gun-news.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to gun-news.com homepage info - get ready to check Gun News best content right away, or after learning these important things about gun-news.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gun-news.com page load time and found that the first response time was 23 ms and then it took 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

gun-news.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.076

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

77/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gun-news.com

23 ms

www.gun-tests.com

89 ms

index.css

20 ms

style-index.css

40 ms

wc-memberships-blocks.min.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gun-news.com, 89% (54 requests) were made to Gun-tests.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (247 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 400.4 kB (44%)

Content Size

916.6 kB

After Optimization

516.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Gun-news.com main page is 916.6 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. 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 250.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 201.1 kB

  • Original 235.6 kB
  • After minification 223.5 kB
  • After compression 34.5 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 201.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 87.2 kB

  • Original 250.2 kB
  • After minification 163.0 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, Gun News needs image optimization as it can save up to 87.2 kB or 35% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 30.0 kB

  • Original 213.0 kB
  • After minification 213.0 kB
  • After compression 183.0 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 30.0 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 82.0 kB

  • Original 217.8 kB
  • After minification 217.7 kB
  • After compression 135.7 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. Gun-news.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 82.0 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (86%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gun News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gun-news.com accessibility score

95

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.

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

gun-news.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gun-news.com SEO score

90

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

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 Gun-news.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 Gun-news.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 Gun News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: