Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 48

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

leadingedgeawards.com

ProductCart shopping cart software - Leading Edge Awards

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

434 ms

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About Website

Welcome to leadingedgeawards.com homepage info - get ready to check Leading Edge Awards best content right away, or after learning these important things about leadingedgeawards.com

We offer shopping cart software to run ecommerce stores. Our shopping carts are used by businesses to build and manage an online storefront.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Leadingedgeawards.com page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 1.5 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

leadingedgeawards.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,360 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

leadingedgeawards.com

60 ms

home.asp

547 ms

pcHeaderFooter.css

124 ms

pcStorefront.css

151 ms

stmenu.js

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Leadingedgeawards.com, 98% (61 requests) were made to Certificatespecialists.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (547 ms) relates to the external source Certificatespecialists.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 319.8 kB (56%)

Content Size

575.3 kB

After Optimization

255.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Leadingedgeawards.com main page is 575.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 371.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 107.3 kB

  • Original 120.7 kB
  • After minification 116.0 kB
  • After compression 13.4 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 107.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 148.1 kB

  • Original 371.8 kB
  • After minification 223.7 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, Leading Edge Awards needs image optimization as it can save up to 148.1 kB or 40% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 38.5 kB

  • Original 53.8 kB
  • After minification 50.6 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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 38.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 25.9 kB

  • Original 29.0 kB
  • After minification 12.6 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. Leadingedgeawards.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (30%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Leading Edge Awards. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

leadingedgeawards.com accessibility score

48

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.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

leadingedgeawards.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

leadingedgeawards.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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Leadingedgeawards.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 Leadingedgeawards.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 Leading Edge Awards. 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: