Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 77

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

malts.com

Single Malt Scotch Whisky | Whisky Brands | Malts.com

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

883 ms

malts.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to malts.com homepage info - get ready to check Malts best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about malts.com

Welcome to Malts.com, the home of the Classic Malts, we showcase the finest single malt Scotch whiskies in the world. A resource for malt whisky lovers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Malts.com page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

malts.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.3 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,030 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.293

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

malts.com

60 ms

www.malts.com

23 ms

www.malts.com

362 ms

1577 ms

main.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Malts.com, 14% (6 requests) were made to Diageoagegate.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Malts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (21%)

Content Size

5.8 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Malts.com main page is 5.8 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. 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 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 460.1 kB

  • Original 629.5 kB
  • After minification 611.9 kB
  • After compression 169.4 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 460.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 132.0 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.2 MB

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. Malts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 402.2 kB

  • Original 565.2 kB
  • After minification 565.2 kB
  • After compression 163.0 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 402.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 222.4 kB

  • Original 251.4 kB
  • After minification 195.3 kB
  • After compression 29.1 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. Malts.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 222.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (17%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Malts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

malts.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

malts.com best practices score

77

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

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

malts.com SEO score

84

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Malts.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 Malts.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 Malts. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: